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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. imaginative intellectual play;
[syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe]

2. the enactment of a pretense;
- Example: "it was just pretend"
[syn: make-believe, pretend]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. imagined as in a play;
- Example: "the make-believe world of theater"
- Example: "play money"
- Example: "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
[syn: make-believe, pretend]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
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. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

make-believe adj 1: imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish" [syn: make-believe, pretend] n 1: imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe] 2: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn: make-believe, pretend]