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Chimera
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What's The Definition Of Chimera?
[n] a grotesque product of the imagination
[n] (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon Synonyms | Synonyms for Chimera: Chimaera | chimaera Related Terms | Find terms related to Chimera: airy hope | airy nothing | apparition | autism | brainchild | bubble | daydream | deception | delirium | deluded belief | delusion | dereism | dream | dream vision | dreamland | dreamworld | eidolon | false belief | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | fiction | figment | golden dream | hallucination | idle fancy | ignis fatuus | illusion | imagery | imagination | imagining | insubstantial image | invention | maggot | make-believe | misbelief | misconception | mosaic | myth | phantasm | phantom | pipe | pipe dream | pomato | potomato | quixotic ideal | rainbow | romance | self-deceit | self-deception | self-delusion | sick fancy | thick-coming fancies | topato | trick | trip | unreal hope | utopia | vapor | vision | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams | wrong impression See Also | imagery | imagination | imaging | mental imagery | mythical creature | mythical monster Chimera In Webster's Dictionary \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. {Chimeras}. [L. chimaera a chimera
(in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf.
Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as
having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the
tail of a dragon. ``Dire chimeras and enchanted isles.''
--Milton.
2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the
imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke.
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