[じ, ji] (n) (1) thing; matter; (2) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) work; business; affair; (5) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (n-suf) (6) (See 事・ごと・1) nominalizing suffix; (7) (See 事・ごと・2) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (P) #353[Add to Longdo]
[きょうげん, kyougen] (n) (1) (See 本狂言, 間狂言) kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; (2) kabuki play; kabuki performance; (3) make-believe; ruse; trick; (P) #18,044[Add to Longdo]
[まねごと, manegoto] (n) sham; make-believe; mere form [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
make-believe
adj 1: imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of
theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water
to catch pretend fish" [syn: {make-believe}, {pretend}]
n 1: imaginative intellectual play [syn: {pretense}, {pretence},
{make-believe}]
2: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn:
{make-believe}, {pretend}]
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