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dream
[ dreem ]
noun
- a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- the sleeping state in which this occurs.
- an object seen in a dream.
- an involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake.
- a vision voluntarily indulged in while awake; daydream; reverie.
- an aspiration; goal; aim:
A trip to Europe is his dream.
- a wild or vain fancy.
- something of an unreal beauty, charm, or excellence.
verb (used without object)
- to have a dream.
- to indulge in daydreams or reveries:
He dreamed about vacation plans when he should have been working.
- to think or conceive of something in a very remote way (usually followed by of ):
I wouldn't dream of asking them.
verb (used with object)
- to see or imagine in sleep or in a vision.
- to imagine as if in a dream; fancy; suppose.
- to pass or spend (time) in dreaming (often followed by away ):
to dream away the afternoon.
adjective
- most desirable; ideal:
a dream vacation.
verb phrase
- to form in the imagination; devise:
They dreamed up the most impossible plan.
dream
/ driːm /
noun
- mental activity, usually in the form of an imagined series of events, occurring during certain phases of sleep
- ( as modifier )
a dream sequence
- ( in combination ) oneiric
dreamland
- a sequence of imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; daydream; fantasy
- ( as modifier )
a dream world
- a person or thing seen or occurring in a dream
- a cherished hope; ambition; aspiration
- a vain hope
- a person or thing that is as pleasant, or seemingly unreal, as a dream
- go like a dreamto move, develop, or work very well
verb
- may take a clause as object to undergo or experience (a dream or dreams)
- intr to indulge in daydreams
- intr to suffer delusions; be unrealistic
you're dreaming if you think you can win
- whenintr, foll by of or about to have an image (of) or fantasy (about) in or as if in a dream
- intrfoll byof to consider the possibility (of)
I wouldn't dream of troubling you
adjective
- too good to be true; ideal
dream kitchen
Derived Forms
- ˈdreamfully, adverb
- ˈdreaming, nounadjective
- ˈdreamless, adjective
- ˈdreamlessly, adverb
- ˈdreamingly, adverb
- ˈdreamˌlike, adjective
- ˈdreamlessness, noun
- ˈdreamful, adjective
Other Words From
- dreamful adjective
- dreamful·ly adverb
- dreamful·ness noun
- dreaming·ly adverb
- dreamlike adjective
- re·dream verb redreamed or redreamt redreaming
- un·dreamed adjective
- un·dreaming adjective
- un·dreamlike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of dream1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dream1
Idioms and Phrases
- pipe dream
- sweet dreams
- wouldn't dream of
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.
So where does this leave the millions of Palestinians—like my relatives—who dream of self-determination and a sovereign state?
And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.
She would never forget it; but realizing its gravity, she decided thereupon never to tell it—the dream—to anybody.
Little did Tressan dream to what a cask of gunpowder he was applying the match of his smug pertness.
She was in a dream of oily odours and monstrous iron constructions, dominated by the grand foreman: and Edwin was in the dream.
As the devil never wanted insinuators, I shall observe, that I learned a way how to make a man dream of what I pleased.
Alice Arden, you little dream of the man and the route by which, possibly, deliverance is speeding to you.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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