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Definitions for fay
feɪfay
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Princeton's WordNet
fairy, faery, faerie, fay, spritenoun
a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
Wiktionary
Faynoun
An Anglo-Irish surname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
Faynoun
An Irish surname, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh.
Faynoun
A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Faynoun
Etymology: feé, French.
And the yellow-skirted fays
Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-lov’d maze. John Milton.Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear;
Fays, fairies, genii, elves and demons hear! Alexander Pope.They plainly to speak of shepherds most what,
Bad is the best, this English is flat;
Their ill ’haviour garres men missay,
Both of their doctrine and their fay. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.
Wikipedia
Fay
Fayetteville Regional Airport (IATA: FAY, ICAO: KFAY, FAA LID: FAY), also known as Grannis Field, is a public use airport in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is owned by the city of Fayetteville and located three nautical miles (6 km) south of its central business district.The airport has two runways and is served by a two-concourse terminal for commercial aviation and one separate terminal for general aviation traffic. The commercial terminal building was designed by Fayetteville architect Mason S. Hicks, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 202,597 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 231,002 enplanements in 2009, and 258,986 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).
Webster Dictionary
Faynoun
a fairy; an elf
Faynoun
faith; as, by my fay
Fayverb
to fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together
Fayverb
to lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together
Etymology: [OF. fei, F. foi. See Faith.]
Wikidata
Fay
Fay is an American sitcom starring Lee Grant as the title character. The series aired on NBC from September 1975 to June 1976.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fay
fā, n. a fairy. [O. Fr. fee—L. fata, a fairy—L. fatum, fate.]
Fay
fā, n. (Shak.) faith.
Fay
fā, v.i. to fit, unite closely.—v.t. to fit together closely. [A.S. fégan; Ger. fügen.]
Fay
Fey, fā, v.t. (prov.) to clean out, as a ditch.
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FAY
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fay is ranked #2440 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Fay surname appeared 14,849 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 5 would have the surname Fay.
92.6% or 13,753 total occurrences were White.
2.8% or 422 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.7% or 252 total occurrences were Black.
1.4% or 208 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1% or 148 total occurrences were Asian.
0.4% or 65 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fay in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fay in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of fay in a Sentence
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Ricky Let's drop it. Let's ecks-nay on the becks-nay. Ig-pay atlin-lay. Bobby Will you ut-shay your outh-may Ricky Ayn-saying-ay Bobby I don't know, you're doing it wrong, I don't understand what the hell you're saying. Ricky Onch-pay oo-bay ... ay-bay ay-way Bobby Ut-shay your ace-fay, asshole-ay. Ricky Did you hear that Did you hear what he said Whadaya think of that
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