dream book

noun

1. a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dream book¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

Whenever you want to find the answer to any puzzle, you look in that dream book!

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He merely drove his hand down into his inside pocket, and fished up an ancient dream-book, greasy and tattered with use.

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Last night I dreamed of eating salt mackerel and my dream book says that means trouble!

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A night spent without dreams of some kind was one wasted in the eyes of the colored girl who consulted her dream book constantly.

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"There's an organ-grinder; it's the first thing I saw;" and she came back fingering the leaves of her dream-book.

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