Meaning of fairy tale | Babel Free
ˈfɛɹi ˌteɪlDefinitions
Equivalents
Azərbaycan dili
nağıl
Български
приказка
বাংলা
রূপকথা
Cymraeg
chwedl
Dansk
eventyr
Ελληνικά
παραμύθι
Esperanto
fabelo
Eesti
muinasjutt
Galego
conto de fadas
Հայերեն
հեքիաթ
Bahasa Indonesia
dongeng
Íslenska
ævintýri
ქართული
ზღაპარი
Кыргызча
жомок
Latina
fābula
Lëtzebuergesch
Märchen
ລາວ
ນິທານ
Lietuvių
pasaka
Latviešu
pasaka
Bahasa Melayu
dongeng
Nederlands
sprookje
پښتو
افسانه
Português
conto de fadas
Română
basm
Slovenčina
rozprávka
Slovenščina
pravljica
Shqip
përrallë
Svenska
saga
ไทย
เทพนิยาย
Tagalog
kakana
اردو
افسانہ
O'zbekcha
choʻpchak
Examples
“I used to love⟳ reading fairy tales when I was a child.”
“The Wife of Bathes Tale is evidently a Fairy-tale. It thus commences: In olde dayes of the king Artour, / Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, / All was this land⟳ fulfilled of faerie.”
“The Arabian Nights rehears'd in bed! / The Fairy Tales in school-time read⟳.”
“Their dresses were rich, and when they came bounding forward⟳, their shapes of silver tissue, with their feathered diadems and faces of animated beauty, they might be imagined into scarcely less than the creations of fairy tale.”
“Mr. Shimerda kneels in front of the tree in prayer; a praying figure⟳ under a magic tree is a common one in fairy tale.”
“He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.”
“If emigrants will submit⟳ to the "fairy tales" of Mr. Thomas, and fall⟳ in with his suggestions, they must patiently submit⟳ to the disagreeable consequences.”
“Comedy as satire is acceptable, as fun it is a pleasant haven of escape⟳, but the fairy tale of happiness ever after cannot be taken seriously; it belongs to the never-never land⟳ of childhood, which is protected from the realities that will become⟳ terribly known soon enough[.]”
“I've been living in a fairy tale since I met Joe.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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