Definitions for make believe

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pretense, pretence, make-believe(noun)

    imaginative intellectual play

  2. make-believe, pretend(adj)

    the enactment of a pretense

    "it was just pretend"

  3. make-believe, pretend(verb)

    imagined as in a play

    "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"

  4. make, pretend, make believe(verb)

    represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

    "She makes like an actress"

Wiktionary

  1. make believe(Noun)

    The act of pretending that what is imaginary is real.

  2. make believe(Verb)

    To pretend or imagine.

  3. make believe(Adjective)

    imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially when imagined by a child


Translations for make believe

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

make believe(noun)

to pretend (that)

The children made believe they were animals.

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