Definition of FAERIE

faerie

Plural: faeries

Noun

  • A fairy or an imaginary land inhabited by fairies.
  • a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
  • the enchanted realm of fairies
  • Archaic spelling of fairy.
  • Realm of the fays, fairyland.

Examples

  • She imagined the Scrabble board as a FAERIE realm, full of magical words waiting to be discovered.

Origin / Etymology

A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene.

Synonyms

faery, fairy, fairyland, fay, sprite

Scrabble Score: 9

faerie: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
faerie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
faerie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

faerie: valid Words With Friends Word