Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who imagines, or forms ideas or conceptions; a contriver.
  • noun A plotter; a schemer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who imagines (something).

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to imagine + -er.

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Examples

  • The reason for my being unspecific in the "cloud of witnesses" finale was that I felt by this point my reader should have been brought to the point where he or she could become a co-imaginer with me, filling in more than is on the page, and deserving of having his or her name in the credits that roll at the end of the film.

    Ingrid Hill - An interview with author 2010

  • Quand l'eau monte à ce niveau avec des infrastructures comme les nôtres, il faudrait imaginer le pire!!!! je m'imagine dans ma voiture dans cette situation, à moitié dans la boue

    Global Voices in English » Tunisia: Severe Flooding Kills 15 2009

  • Jelas ini lebih ke imaginer, karena Rumi sudah meninggal ratusan tahun yang lalu.

    Jati Diri: dari Iqbal, Rumi, Sampai Newton – Netsains.Com 2009

  • You are always such a powerful imaginer and arguer but in this case the fact of unhappnines is not really the point. there is never going to be a happy resolution to this question

    Pro Death Lobby Newmania 2007

  • I had a formative experience in the early 1980s, at the Lawrence Labs in Livermore, California, hearing Herman Kahn, a far-famed apocalypse imaginer from the Hudson Institute, talk about kill ratios as he gamed various nuclear scenarios.

    Scott Malcomson: The Intelligence Community and Obama's Future 2009

  • (Interesting that Wells, the great imaginer of the abstract, was the one who thought world socialism would just be nifty.)

    Other Things to Point Out KaneCitizen 2006

  • A propos de ton “incapacité” à imaginer des histoires fictives: je ne lis presque que de la science-fiction et je suis toujours admiratif devant le fait que quasiment chaque auteur de SF ne fait que décrire ses contemporains en transposant ça dans un monde futuriste/imaginaire/parralèle, etc.

    Writing Stories — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • I don't expect that the "ghost" would accurately reflect my feelings toward the imaginer, or what I would want to say to that person if I were actually asked.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • Ce que vous avez dit, je ne me peut pas imaginer pourquois quelqun dirait quelque chose comme ca.

    Quotes to make you Question... James F. McGrath 2008

  • (Interesting that Wells, the great imaginer of the abstract, was the one who thought world socialism would just be nifty.)

    Archive 2006-05-01 KaneCitizen 2006

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