a small mythical being in human form with magical powers
Every time a child says, ‘I don't believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead — J M Barrie
informal, derog a male homosexual
a hummingbird of Central and S America: genus Heliothryx
fairylike adj
[Middle English fairie fairyland, fairy people, via Old French faerie from Latin Fata, goddess of fate, from fatum: see fate1]