Usually means: Imaginary play using creative imagination.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word make-believe:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. make-believe: Merriam-Webster
  2. make-believe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. make-believe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. make-believe, make-believe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. make-believe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Make-Believe, Make-believe, make-believe: Wordnik
  7. make-believe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. make-believe: Wiktionary
  9. make-believe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. make-believe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. make-believe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Make-believe, make-believe: Dictionary.com
  13. make-believe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. make-believe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Make-believe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. make-believe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. make-believe: Rhymezone
  18. make-believe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. make-believe: FreeDictionary.org
  20. make-believe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. make-believe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make-believe: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make-believe)

noun:  (uncountable) The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
noun:  (uncountable) The condition of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.
noun:  (countable) Something imaginary.
adjective:  Imaginary; not real; pretend.

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