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imagos

imagos is the plural of imago.

Meaning of imago

Noun

imago (plural imagines or imagos or imagoes)

  1. The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.
    • ‘But still,’ he said to himself, drawing the metamorphoses of a red admiral, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and imago on his pad, ‘what shall I say to him when we meet?’1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
  2. An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.

Questions about imagos

What is imagos the plural of?
Imagos is the plural of imago.

Words near imagos in the dictionary

  1. imagocide
  2. imagoes
  3. imagological
  4. imagologies
  5. imagology
  6. imagos
  7. imagotherapy
  8. imagotype
  9. imagy
  10. Imahara
  11. Imaharas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imagos (page history and authors); imago (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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