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FANCIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fancier mean?
• FANCIER (noun)
The noun FANCIER has 1 sense:
1. a person having a strong liking for something
Familiarity information: FANCIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person having a strong liking for something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
enthusiast; fancier
Hypernyms ("fancier" is a kind of...):
admirer; adorer (someone who admires a young woman)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fancier"):
animal fancier (a person who breeds animals)
bird fancier (a person with a strong interest in birds)
maniac (a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something)
technophile (a person who is enthusiastic about new technology)
Derivation:
fancy (have a fancy or particular liking or desire for)
Context examples
“By the way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a better grown goose.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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