Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something.

    She's definitely a cat fancier: she has nine of them in her home and the walls are covered with pictures of more.

    a person having a strong liking for something

  2. A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.

  3. One who fancies or imagines.

Origin

From fancy (verb) + -er.

From fancy (verb) + -er.

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Forms

plural: fanciers
Singularfancier
Pluralfanciers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person having a strong liking for something:enthusiast

Word family

2 related words
Relatedfancy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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