# imagine
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English ymagynen, from Middle French imaginer, from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪˈmæ.d͡ʒɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: i‧ma‧gine

### Verb

imagine (third-person singular simple present imagines, present participle imagining, simple past and past participle imagined)
* (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
    Try to imagine a pink elephant.
** 1971, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “Imagine”, in Imagine (album):Imagine all the people / Livin' life in peace
** 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, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 159, column 2:Or in the night, imagining ſome feare, / How eaſie is a buſh ſuppos’d a Beare?
** 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18: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.
* (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
    She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
    There's nothing there; you're just imagining things.
* (transitive) To assume; to suppose.
    I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
* (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.
    I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
    The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%
* (transitive) To use one's imagination.
    Imagine that we were siblings.
* (transitive, obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 62:3, column 1:How long wil ye imagine miſchiefe againſt a man?
* (transitive, Internet slang, rhetorical, sarcastic) Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
    Imagine thinking that would work.

#### Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
* This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

#### Synonyms

* ween

#### Derived terms

* disimagine
* imaginability
* imaginable
* imaginal
* imaginarium
* imaginary
* imagination
* imaginative
* Imagineer
* imagine that
* imaginify
* imaginist
* imaginitis
* imaginous
* misimagine
* outimagine
* overimagine
* preimagine
* reimagine
* unimaginable
* unimagine

#### Related terms

* image
* imagery
* imago

#### Translations
### Noun

imagine (plural imagines)
* (fandom slang) A short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.
** 2015 March 2, Laura Starling, “FFIC101: An Introduction to the Horrors of Fanfiction”, in Critic, University of Otago, page 21:Some imagines are more sexual and creepy than others: "Imagine Stiles walking in on you giving Scott a blowjob."
** 2016 December, Jocelyn Chambers, “The Exclusion Of People Of Color In Fanfiction”, in Majesty, page 96:i personally like imagines and fanfics so i found a good amount of kylo ren x reader fics and started going through them.
** 2019, "thranduilsperkybutt", quoted in "Author Spotlight: thranduilsperkybutt", Lemon, February 2019, page 37:
    If I get inspired immediately, I can bust out an imagine in 5-10 minutes.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:imagine.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

imagine
* inflection of imaginer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Noun

imāgine
* ablative singular of imāgō

## Portuguese
### Verb

imagine
* inflection of imaginar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imāgō, imāginem. Compare French image.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

imagine f (plural imagini)
* image

#### Related terms

* imagina

#### See also

* poză

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /imaˈxine/ [i.maˈxi.ne]
* Rhymes: -ine
* Syllabification: i‧ma‧gi‧ne

### Verb

imagine
* inflection of imaginar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative