make-believe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: make-believe	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for make-believe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
make-believe adj imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish" Synonym(s): make-believe, pretend n imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe] the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" Synonym(s): make-believe, pretend
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a. Feigned; insincere. [bd]Make-believe reverence.[b8]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. [bd]Childlike make-believe.[b8] --Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M. Arnold.