What is the meaning of make-believe?

noun

  • Imaginative intellectual play.
  • The enactment of a pretense.
    • usage: "it was just pretend"

adjective

  • Imagined as in a play.
    • usage: "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
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