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Answer for the clue "Diminutive fairytale creatures ", 5 letters:
elves

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elf \Elf\ ([e^]lf), n.; pl. Elves ([e^]lvz). [AS. [ae]lf, ylf; akin to MHG. alp, G. alp nightmare, incubus, Icel. [=a]lfr elf, Sw. alf, elfva; cf. Skr. [.r]bhu skillful, artful, rabh to grasp. Cf. Auf , Oaf .] An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: hob , gremlin , pixie , pixy , brownie , imp ] below 3 kilohertz [syn: extremely low frequency ] [also: elves (pl)]

Usage examples of elves.

The Kuakgan and the elves told me that the gods used to call paladins directly.

He thought they had used something like the true elves use to speed and slow the growth of plants.

You may know that elves do not live, for the most part, in buildings of stone.

Many of them had met elves in the mountains west of the south marches.

The Kuakkganni are alien to elves, though they know us as well as any, and we are alien to them.

elves—the true elves, not we mixbreeds—are not wholly in the world humans know.

I think that is a lie: dwarves and elves seldom agree, but dwarves are not evil.

But elves, when they are killed, have no longer any relation to the bodies they used, and harm or injury done the body cannot affect them.

Did you know that there are elves in the Ladysforest who knew Gird—knew him as Ardhiel knew you?

You have spent a summer with elves and part-elves and the powers of the forest.

The elves that turned from the High Lord—some say when the first of the Kuakkganni sang to the First Tree—worship her.

They seemed to know much that Paks had learned only that summer, asking questions about the relations of elves and humans and other matters Paks knew little about.

Its a joint kingdom, and the elves have a right to be in the kingship.

When nothing was heard for too long—for the elves would send word of safe arrival, and besides the eastern taig was troubled—search was made, and the wagons and bodies were found.

He blamed the queen for the young prince’s death—taking that journey—and he disliked the elves at court who would have tutored the princess in taigin.