Meaning of make-believe In English

• 0 believing or imagining things that appear to be attractive or exciting, but are not real:

  • The ideal of a perfectly fair society is just make-believe.

  • He lives in a world of make-believe/make-believe world.

• 1 to pretend:

  • Jake likes to make believe he’s a pirate.

• 2 a state of mind in which you pretend to believe that conditions are real, esp. because that reality would be more pleasant than the actual one:

  • Disneyland creates a world of make-believe.

• 3 (used esp. in children’s play) representing something that you agree to pretend is real for the purpose of playing:

  • They dueled with make-believe swords and climbed make-believe cliffs.