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]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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]

noun

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

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a. Feigned; insincere. ``Make-believe reverence.''

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M. Arnold.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)