chimère — meaning in English

English meaning

• Chimera noun An organism, plan, or idea made up of very different or clashing parts, especially one that is unrealistic.
• figment noun Something invented or imagined that has no basis in reality.

Senses

chimère is used for these senses in English:

• Chimera (Greek mythology) A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
• figment A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
• pipe dream (idiomatic, originally, US) A desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or a plan which is unlikely to work; a near impossibility. [from late 19th c.]

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