make-believe \make"-be*lieve`\, n.
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere
pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe."
--Tylor.
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To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M.
Arnold.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a.
1. Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." --G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster]
2. Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom
he often talked.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
make-believe
adj : imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater";
"play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to
catch pretend fish" [syn: pretend]
n 1: imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence]
2: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn: pretend]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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