transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmædʒɪneɪʃ(ə)n ]
( imaginations)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced.
Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination...
The Government approach displays a lack of imagination.
N-VAR
2.
Your imagination is the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life.
Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.
N-COUNT : usu with supp
3.
If you say that someone or something captured your imagination , you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time.
Italian football captured the imagination of the nation last season.
PHRASE : V inflects
4.
If you say that something stretches your imagination , you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before.
Their films are exciting and really stretch the imagination.
PHRASE : V inflects [ approval ]
5.
not by any stretch of the imagination: see stretch