Definitions for imago

imago i·ma·go

Spelling: [ih-mey-goh, ih-mah-]
IPA: /ɪˈmeɪ goʊ, ɪˈmɑ-/

Imago is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in imago (agimo).

Definitions for imago

noun

  1. Entomology. an adult insect.
  2. Psychoanalysis. an idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.

Origin of imago

1790-1800; New Latin, Latin imāgō; see image

Examples for imago

Nothing of the kind appears there; but in the imago primi Sculi Soc.

The first stage of his imago Mundi collection has taken Benetton and his team five years to curate.

Thus in the imago greater concentration is found than in the caterpillar.

No tracheæ are developed in the larva, nor do any exist in the imago.

imago Mundi will be on view at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice from August 28th—October 27th.

The old poet has cast the imago of a society which we are still trying to embody.

In the perfect or imago state the May-fly lives but a short time.

Luciano Benetton's ‘imago Mundi’The concept is an innovative but simple one.

Now it is with this perfect, or imago condition of the world-eject, that we have to do.

From egg to imago the transformations proceed with regularity, and they are marvelous.

Word Value for imago
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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