fairytale
Speech parts
1. fairytale - Noun
2. fairytale - Adjective
Meaning
an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
a story about fairies; told to amuse children
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Examples
A group called the Dry Water Band made the couple's first dance nothing short of a Disney fairytale, as they covered the Sleeping Beauty song Once Upon a Dream.
A long time ago in a distant fairytale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Andersen's work sometimes drew on old folktales, but more often deployed fairytale motifs and plots in new tales.
Are you feeling like the singalong, the silliness, but not so much the Disney fairytale of it all?
A pair of otters have found a "fairytale love story" under lockdown after losing their former partners.
After rooting through the garden's late-summer bounty, Simmons heads back to the kitchen with a sheet pan piled high with heirloom tomatoes, Japanese and fairytale eggplants, snakelike Armenian cucumbers, shishito peppers, and a bouquet of herbs.