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Meaning of 'make-believe' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Make-believe [ a.]
- Feigned; insincere.
2 . Make-believe [ n.]
- A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.

Meaning of 'make-believe' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . make-believe [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the enactment of a pretense
Example in sentence:
  • it was just pretend
2 . make-believe [ s]
Meaning (2):
- imagined as in a play
Example in sentence:
  • dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish;
  • play money;
  • the make-believe world of theater

Nearby Words:

makable makaron make make-belief make-game make-peace make-up makebate maked makeless

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