Definition of "imagine"

imagine

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/

verb
third-person singular simple present imagines, present participle imagining, simple past and past participle imagined
1. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
  Quotations
  Or in the night, imagining ſome feare, / How eaſie is a buſh ſuppos’d a Beare?
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i], page 159, column 2
  Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
  2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
2. (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind.
3. (transitive) to assume
4. (transitive) to conjecture or guess
5. (transitive) to use one's imagination
6. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
  Quotations
  How long wil ye imagine miſchiefe againſt a man?
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 62:3, column 1
7. (transitive, Internet slang, rhetorical, sarcastic) Used to mock some idea.
noun
plural imagines
1. (fandom slang) A short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.
  Quotations
  Some imagines are more sexual and creepy than others: "Imagine Stiles walking in on you giving Scott a blowjob."
  2015 March 2, Laura Starling, “FFIC101: An Introduction to the Horrors of Fanfiction”, in Critic, University of Otago, page 21
  i personally like imagines and fanfics so i found a good amount of kylo ren x reader fics and started going through them.
  2016 December, Jocelyn Chambers, “The Exclusion Of People Of Color In Fanfiction”, in Majesty, page 96
  If I get inspired immediately, I can bust out an imagine in 5-10 minutes.
  2019, "thranduilsperkybutt", quoted in "Author Spotlight: thranduilsperkybutt", Lemon, February 2019, page 37

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