slovo | definícia |
makebelieve (mass) | make-believe
- pretvárka |
make-believe (encz) | make-believe,přetvářka luke |
make-believe (gcide) | 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] |
Make-believe (gcide) | Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a.
1. Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." --G. Eliot.
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2. Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom
he often talked.
[PJC] |
make-believe (wn) | 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] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
makebelieve (mass) | make-believe
- pretvárka |
make-believe (encz) | make-believe,přetvářka luke |
make-believe (gcide) | 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]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] |
make-believe (wn) | 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] |
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