imagine
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
imagine/ɪˈmaʤɪn/
▶verb
- 1 form a mental image or concept of.
■ (often as adj. imagined) believe (something unreal) to exist.
- 2 believe to be so; suppose.
– derivatives
imaginer noun.
imaginer noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. imaginer, from L. imaginare ‘form an image of’ and imaginari ‘picture to oneself’, both from imago, imagin- ‘image’.
'imagine' also found in these Oxford entries:
conceive
- conception
- contrive
- dream
- envision
- fancy
- ideate
- imagineer
- make-believe
- pant
- play
- prefigure
- project
- shoe
- thing
- unguessable
- unimaginable
- vision
- visualize
