<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc.</li><li>something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea.</li><li>imagination; fancy.</li><li>a fancy; whim; fanciful notion.</li><li>an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, especially of a strained or far-fetched nature.</li><li>the use of such metaphors as a literary characteristic, especially in poetry.</li><li>a fancy, purely decorative article.</li><li>favorable opinion; esteem.</li><li>personal opinion or estimation.</li><li>obsolete: the faculty of conceiving; apprehension.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to flatter (especially oneself).</li><li>to take a fancy to; have a good opinion of.</li><li>obsolete: to imagine.</li><li>to conceive; apprehend.</li></ul>