Fairy Story (Noun)
Meaning 1
A story about fairies; told to amuse children.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The bedtime story was a fairy story about a magical kingdom hidden in the forest.
- She loved listening to her grandmother's fairy story about the adventures of a mischievous fairy named Pixie.
- The fairy story was so vivid that the children could almost see the sparkling fairy dust in the air.
- The teacher read a fairy story to the class, complete with colorful illustrations of fairies and dragons.
- The old book was filled with fairy stories that had been passed down through generations of storytellers.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- My grandmother always made up the most fantastic fairy story about why we had to visit the park, and we loved listening to them even if they were not entirely true.
- Her explanation of why the cookies went missing sounded like a fairy story to me.
- It sounds like a fairy story that aliens were controlling our computer.
- She created a beautiful fairy story around how they had won a national poetry contest to ease their kids into writing their first compositions.
- We decided it would be safer if my husband were the one to offer an alibi – fairy story if need be.