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make-believe Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

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.