Definitions for Fantasia

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Fantasia fan·ta·sia

Spelling: [fan-tey-zhuh, -zhee-uh, fan-tuh- Fantasia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in Fantasia (aaafinst).

Definitions for Fantasia

noun

1. Music. a composition in fanciful or irregular form or style. a potpourri of well-known airs arranged with interludes and florid embellishments.
2. fantasy (def 9).
3. something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque.

Origin of Fantasia

From Italian, dating back to 1715-25; See origin at fantasy

Examples for Fantasia

What genius could have composed the fantasia in C without such a passion!

Every wretched bit of would-be-extra chic is called a fantasia.

They are good for a long journey, or a swift run, or a fantasia.

Bull returned the compliment by writing a fantasia on a Fugue by Sweelinck.

This was in a fantasia on themes by Pacini, which he played in a most remarkable manner.

The fantasia is a spontaneous, every-man-on-his-own sort of an affair.

There's the piano, still open—a fantasia lies, you see, on the music-stand.

I recall this fantasia because I was so fortunate as to have heard it so near him.

What do we remember more fondly: fantasia torching a rendition of “Summertime?”

He asked me if I had composed a fantasia on the Red Sarafan.