English > imaginary being: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A creature / creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
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| Synonym | imaginary creature |
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| Instances | Death | The personification of death / death / death |
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| Gargantua | A voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name |
| Humpty Dumpty | An egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century) |
| Jack Frost | A personification of frost or winter weather |
| Mammon | (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit |
| Martian | imaginary people who live on the planet Mars |
| Maxwell's demon | An imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole |
| Santa Claus, Santa, Kriss Kringle, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, St. Nick | The legendary patron saint of children |
| Tom Thumb | An imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb |
| Narrower | Cadmus | (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia |
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| fictional character, fictitious character, character | An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) |
| giant | An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength |
| hobbit | An imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet |
| hypothetical creature | A creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist |
| mermaid | half woman and half fish |
| merman | half man and half fish |
| monster | An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts |
| mythical being | An imaginary being of myth or fable |
| psychopomp | A conductor of souls to the afterworld |
| sylph | An elemental being believed to inhabit the air |
| unicorn | An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead |
| witch | A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil |
| Broader | imagination, imaginativeness, vision | The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
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| Spanish | criatura imaginaria, ente imaginario, ser imaginario |
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| Catalan | criatura imaginària, ésser imaginari |
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