[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

make-believe \make"-believe`\, 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

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

make-believe \make"-believe`\, 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

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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" syn: pretend
     n 1: imaginative intellectual play syn: pretense, pretence
     2: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" syn: pretend
see also:
pretend pretense pretence 

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