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"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. make-believe(noun)ɪk

   a state in which you pretend; = fantasy

   She lives in a world of make-believe.

Wiktionary

1. make-believe(Noun)

   The quality or act of pretending; assuming something is true when in fact one knows it is not.

Origin: From make + believe.

Webster Dictionary

1. Make-believe(noun)

   a feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention

2. Make-believe(adj)

   feigned; insincere

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