| has gloss | (noun) a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
imaginary creature, imaginary being |
| lexicalization | eng: imaginary being |
| lexicalization | eng: imaginary creature |
| subclass of | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
imagination, vision, imaginativeness |
| has subclass | (noun) a conductor of souls to the afterworld; "Hermes was their psychopomp"
psychopomp |
| has subclass | (noun) an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
sylph |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
unicorn |
| has subclass | (noun) a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist
hypothetical creature |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary being of myth or fable
mythical being |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
giant |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
hobbit |
| has subclass | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
mermaid |
| has subclass | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea
merman |
| has subclass | (noun) (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia
Cadmus |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
monster |
| has subclass | (noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
witch |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
fictional character, character, fictitious character |
| has instance | (noun) the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas
Saint Nicholas, Kriss Kringle, Santa Claus, Saint Nick, St. Nick, Santa, Father Christmas |
| has instance | (noun) an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb
Tom Thumb |
| has instance | (noun) the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"
Death |
| has instance | (noun) a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name
Gargantua |
| has instance | (noun) 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; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
Maxwell's demon |
| has instance | (noun) imaginary people who live on the planet Mars
Martian |
| has instance | (noun) an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)
Humpty Dumpty |
| has instance | (noun) a personification of frost or winter weather
Jack Frost |
| has instance | (noun) (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit; "ye cannot serve God and Mammon"
Mammon |