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Princeton's WordNet

  1. imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisageverb

    form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

    "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

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  1. conceive of

    To "conceive of" something generally means to form or develop an idea, plan, or concept in one's mind. It refers to being capable of imagining or understanding something.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of conceive of in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of conceive of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of conceive of in a Sentence

  1. Charles de Gaulle:

    How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.

  2. Charles De Gaulle:

    How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses

  3. Martin Dempsey:

    But I could conceive of one potentially somewhere in the corridor that runs from Baghdad to Tikrit to Kirkuk and over into Mosul. So we're looking at that area.

  4. Steve Martin:

    My first instinct was, 'Of course not.' And I thought about it overnight and I thought, 'You know, that's an interesting proposition,' he's the only artist I could conceive of curating because his masterpieces, all in Canada, are known, they're unknown in America and I happen to have a love of him.

  5. Tom Witt:

    It's an outrage — an absolute outrage, i can conceive of no justifiable reason for doing this.

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