fantasia
see also: Fantasia
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /fænˈteɪzɪə/
  • (America) IPA: /fænˈteɪʒə/
Noun

fantasia (plural fantasias)

  1. (music) Form of instrumental composition with free structure and improvisational characteristics.
  2. Any unstructured work.
    • 1899, Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
      When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
    • 2003, Kevin L. O'Brien, Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (page 39)
      Her art is always with her, clothing her from throat to toes in an indelible fantasia of color and form and myth.
  3. A traditional festival with exhibitions of horsemanship among the Maghrebi Berber.
Translations
Fantasia
Proper noun
  1. Surname



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