'Make-believe' definitions:

Definition of 'make-believe'

From: WordNet
adjective
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]
noun
Imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe]
noun
The enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn: make-believe, pretend]

Definition of 'Make-believe'

From: 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]

Definition of 'make-believe'

From: 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]