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What (who) is Pretend - definition

POPULAR SONG WRITTEN IN 1952

pretend

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Pretending (song); Pretend; Pretending (disambiguation); Pretended; Pretend (song)

I. v. a.

1.

Feign, affect, simulate, counterfeit, sham.

2.

Lay claim to, claim, allege a title to.

II. v. n.

1.

Make believe, make a show, profess, feign, sham.

2.

Strive after, lay claim to.

Pretend

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Pretending (song); Pretend; Pretending (disambiguation); Pretended; Pretend (song)

·vt To hold before one; to Extend.

II. Pretend ·vt To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to Claim.

III. Pretend ·vt To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

IV. Pretend ·vi To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something;

- usually with to.

V. Pretend ·vt To Intend; to Design; to Plot; to Attempt.

VI. Pretend ·vi To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to Profess; to make believe; to Feign; to Sham; as, to pretend to be asleep.

VII. Pretend ·vt To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to Simulate; to Feign; as, to pretend friendship.

pretend

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Pretending (song); Pretend; Pretending (disambiguation); Pretended; Pretend (song)

¦ verb

1. act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.

engage in an imaginative game or fantasy.

simulate (an emotion or quality).

2. (pretend to) lay claim to (a quality or title).

¦ adjective informal imaginary; make-believe.

Origin

ME: from L. praetendere 'stretch forth, claim', from prae 'before' + tendere 'stretch'.

Wikipedia

Pretend (1952 song)

"Pretend" is a popular song, written in 1952 by Dan Belloc, Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman and Frank Levere.

The best-known recording, by Nat King Cole, was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2346. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on January 31, 1953, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 3. It also reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1953, just behind Frankie Laine's chart topping hit, "I Believe". Cole would later re-record the song for his 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story.

The recording by Ralph Marterie was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70045. It reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on February 7, 1953 at No. 16, its only week on the chart.

The recording by Eileen Barton was released by Coral Records as catalog number 60927. It reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on March 7, 1953 at No. 18, its only week on the chart.

On the Cash Box chart, where all versions of the song were combined, the song reached a peak of No. 5 in 1953.

The song was subsequently recorded by Tab Smith, reaching No. 89 on the Billboard chart in 1957, and by Carl Mann (issued as catalog number 3546 by Philips International), reaching No. 57 on Billboard and No. 56 on Cash Box in 1959.

Alvin Stardust's cover version was a popular hit in the United Kingdom in 1981, when it reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. This cover was largely based on Carl Mann's 1959 version of this song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretend (1952 song)

Examples of use of Pretend

1. "We pretend they‘re allies, and they pretend to cooperate," she said.

2. In a city chock full of pretend institutions –– a pretend parliament, a pretend judiciary and now the Public Chamber, a great big pretend NGO –– the Moscow metro is utterly real.

3. "There is no point in having a pretend vote on a pretend treaty," he said.

4. We don‘t pretend now, we did not pretend at the start, to have expertise.

5. Email the Opinion Page Editor Now that the pretend results from the pretend elections to the nation‘s pretend parliament have been certified, the next order of political business will be the pretend presidential election in March.