Polyglot Dictionary

imaginação

/imaʒinaˈsɐ̃w/

a noun B1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
as imaginações

Meaning

  1. imagination

    • Tem muita imaginação.

      She has a lot of imagination.

N Category Idea Concreteness Abstract Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

visão

imaginação (imagination) is the general creative mental faculty; visão can mean eyesight, or separately a forward-looking vision/plan — only that visionary sense is close to imagination.

Similar in other languages

German

Fantasie

Fantasie is the German word for the same thing — both mean "imagination."

Spanish

imaginación

imaginación is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "imagination."

French

imagination

imagination is the French word for the same thing — both mean "imagination."

Practice

1 What does imaginação mean?

2 Fill the gap: Tem muita ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches imaginação?

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