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Imagineer

noun

Etymology

Blend of imagine + engineer.

  1. derived from ingegniere — “engineer”
  2. derived from engigneour
  3. derived from ingénieur
  4. derived from *ǵenh₁-✻ — “to beget, give birth to; to produce”
  5. derived from ingenium — “innate or natural quality, nature; intelligence, natural capacity; ability, skill, talent; (Medieval Latin) engine; machine”
  6. derived from engigneor
  7. derived from enginour
  8. inherited from enginour — “one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.; machine designer”
  9. compounded as imagineer — “imagine + engineer”

Definitions

  1. An engineer at The Walt Disney Company responsible for designing and implementing…

    An engineer at The Walt Disney Company responsible for designing and implementing innovative concepts or technologies, often found in theme parks, installation art, or fireworks.

    • In all, the Fronierland that Disney Imagineers designed for France was new and strangely sophisticated. Combining elements of New and Old Worlds, it resonated with themes that were at once past and present, ultra-American and worldly.
    • Disney Imagineers are offering us fantasy as real life. We can buy it and move in permanently.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Imagineer.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA