| English noun: imaginary being | 
| 1. | imaginary being (person) a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction | 
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 | Synonyms | imaginary creature | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | imagination, imaginativeness, vision | 
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 | Narrower (hyponym) | Cadmus, character, fictional character, fictitious character, giant, hobbit, hypothetical creature, mermaid, merman, monster, mythical being, psychopomp, sylph, unicorn, witch | 
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 | Instance hyponym | Death, Father Christmas, Gargantua, Humpty Dumpty, Jack Frost, Kriss Kringle, Mammon, Martian, Maxwell's demon, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Santa, Santa Claus, St. Nick, Tom Thumb | 
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