fantasia
noun/fænˈteɪziə/
/fænˈteɪʒə/
- a piece of music in a free form, often based on well-known tunesTopics Musicc2Word Originearly 18th cent.: from Italian, ‘fantasy’, from Latin phantasia, from Greek ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein ‘make visible’.
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