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imagining

nounverbcommon in dialogue

Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

noun

  1. 1

    Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

    1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens, Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]

    Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings.

    Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of imaginepresent participle and gerund of imagine

  2. 2

    Also a form of imaginpresent participle and gerund of imagin

Forms

plural
imaginings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).