urban fantasy

noun

A subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.

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Meanings

nounurban fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural urban fantasies)

plural urban fantasies

  1. countableuncountableliteratureA subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
  2. countableuncountableliteratureAn individual work in this genre.

    More recently, Amanda Hocking, author of young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasies, self-published nine of her own novels, several of which made the New York Times best-seller list.

    2012, Andrea Lunsford, Lisa Ede, Beverly J. Moss, Carole Clark Papper, Everyone's an Author, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 666
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