Definitions for imagines

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imagines im·ag·ine

Spelling: [ih-maj-in]

IPA: /ɪˈmædʒ ɪn/

Imagines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 275 anagrams from letters in imagines (aegiimns).

Definitions for imagines

noun

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

verb (used with object)

1. to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
2. to think, believe, or fancy:
3. to assume; suppose:
4. to conjecture; guess:
5. Archaic. to plan, scheme, or plot.

verb (used without object)

1. to form mental images of things not present to the senses; use the imagination.
2. to suppose; think; conjecture.

Origin of imagines

1300-50; Middle English imaginen Middle French imaginer Latin imāginārī, equivalent to imāgin- (stem of imāgō) image + -ā- thematic vowel + -rī infinitive ending

Examples for imagines

In her delirium she imagines herself to be queen of the world.

A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.

Most bravely perhaps, Maka, 45, imagines some comedic moments.

In those anonymous italics again, Kibbe imagines unnamed folks saying, “Check this out: This senator is speaking truth to power.”

He also imagines her dancing a sexually aggressive spotlit dance.

He imagines that the thought had proceeded out of his own heart.

He sees the hearth in the middle and imagines the fire blazing there.

Some faces show more plainly in the moonlight, or one imagines so.

For a moment, Tiffany imagines her two friends doing something slightly wicked, like joy-riding around Syracuse.

Nobody, even in revolutionary France, imagines that it will work.