Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FAY
FAY
Definitions of FAY
- Fitted closely together.
- A fairy.
- Fairy like.
- A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
- (obsolete) To fit.
- (shipbuilding, transitive) To join (pieces of timber) tightly.
- (shipbuilding, intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
- (obsolete) To fadge.
- (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
- (USslang) A white person.
- (USslang) White; white-skinned.
- A Anglo-Irish surname from nicknames, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
- A Irish surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using FAY in a Sentence
- From left to right, Back row: Louis Aragon, Theodore Fraenkel, Paul Eluard, Clément Pansaers, Emmanuel Fay (cut off).
- Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong.
- A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.
- Building on the work of his predecessors Guillaume Du Fay and Johannes Ockeghem, he developed a complex style of expressive—and often imitative—movement between independent voices (polyphony) which informs much of his work.
- He was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, née Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet.
- This debut album made an impact on a young Keith Fay who had formed a Tolkien-inspired black metal band by the name of Minas Tirith.
- It stars Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard and Gene Reynolds.
- Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden and Samuel S.
- La Fayette (named after Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, pronounced locally "Lay - fay - et") is a village in Stark County, Illinois.
- In 1946, Fay Clark, an entrepreneur of several ventures located in Linn County north of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had a vision of houses and a highway running through a new city.
- Fay Kellogg, called the foremost woman architect in the US, summered on a farm that she owned in Greenlawn.
- Benajah Fay, his wife Ruth Wilcox Fay, and their ten children, arrivals from Lewis County, New York, were the first settlers in 1816.
- Benajah Fay, his wife Ruth Wilcox Fay, and their ten children, arrivals from Lewis County, New York, were the first settlers in 1816.
- Mildred Fay Jefferson, first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and national pro-life leader.
- Thunderbolt (also released as At The Gates of Death) is a 1929 American pre-Code proto-noir film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer.
- The Affairs of Cellini is a 1934 American historical comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Frank Morgan, Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Fay Wray, and Louis Calhern.
- Newman, Fay Weldon and Sue Townsend, including Ripen our Darkness and Byrthrite by Sarah Daniels and Bazaar and Rummage and The Great Celestial Cow by Sue Townsend.
- In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, her daughters by Gorlois are Elaine, Morgause and Morgan le Fay.
- Representing the San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC), Conner's Sail America Foundation faced another controversial challenger in 1988, backed by New Zealand banker Michael Fay.
- after the broadcast of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Gala Premier, various sound and vision test signals, and announcements by presenter Fay Cavendish.
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