Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a.
   Feigned; insincere. ``Make-believe reverence.''

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.

         To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M.
                                                  Arnold.

Source : WordNet®

make-believe
     adj : imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater";
           "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to
           catch pretend fish" [syn: {pretend}]
     n 1: imaginative intellectual play [syn: {pretense}, {pretence}]
     2: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn: {pretend}]