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Definitions for Dream

[1] a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
[2] the sleeping state in which this occurs.
[3] an object seen in a dream.
[4] an involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake.
[5] a vision voluntarily indulged in while awake; daydream; reverie.
[6] an aspiration; goal; aim: A trip to Europe is his dream.
[7] a wild or vain fancy.
[8] something of an unreal beauty, charm, or excellence.
[9] to have a dream.
[10] to indulge in daydreams or reveries: He dreamed about vacation plans when he should have been working.
[11] to think or conceive of something in a very remote way (usually followed by of ): I wouldn't dream of asking them.
[12] to see or imagine in sleep or in a vision.
[13] to imagine as if in a dream; fancy; suppose.
[14] to pass or spend (time) in dreaming (often followed by away ): to dream away the afternoon.
[15] most desirable; ideal: a dream vacation.
[16] dream up , to form in the imagination; devise: They dreamed up the most impossible plan.
[17] 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 ) dreamland Related adjective: oneiric
[18] a sequence of imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; daydream; fantasy (as modifier ) a dream world
[19] a person or thing seen or occurring in a dream
[20] a cherished hope; ambition; aspiration
[21] a vain hope
[22] a person or thing that is as pleasant, or seemingly unreal, as a dream
[23] go like a dream to move, develop, or work very well
[24] (may take a clause as object) to undergo or experience (a dream or dreams)
[25] (intr) to indulge in daydreams
[26] (intr) to suffer delusions; be unrealistic you're dreaming if you think you can win
[27] (when intr, foll by of or about ) to have an image (of) or fantasy (about) in or as if in a dream
[28] (intr foll by of ) to consider the possibility (of) I wouldn't dream of troubling you
[29] too good to be true; ideal dream kitchen

Words related to Dream

imagination, nightmare, delusion, idea, thought, fantasy, image, desire, wish, aspiration, ambition, notion, hope, visualize, daydream, conceive, invent, crave, fantasize, think

Words nearby Dream

dread, dreadful, dreadfully, dreadlocks, dreadnought, dream, dream act, dream analysis, dream book, dream come true, a, dream merchant

Origin of Dream

1200–50; Middle English dreem, Old English drēam joy, mirth, gladness, cognate with Old Saxon drōm mirth, dream, Old Norse draumr, Old High German troum dream; modern sense first recorded in ME but presumably also current in Old English, as in Old Saxon

Other words from Dream

dream·ful , adjective
dream·ful·ly , adverb
dream·ful·ness , noun
dream·ing·ly , adverb
dream·like , adjective
re·dream , verb, re·dreamed or re·dreamt, re·dream·ing.
un·dreamed , adjective
un·dream·ing , adjective
un·dream·like , adjective

Word origin for Dream

Old English drēam song; related to Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr, Greek thrulos noise

Synonyms for Dream

delusion, fantasy, idea, image, imagination, nightmare, thought, bubble, chimera, daydream, fancy, hallucination, impression, incubus, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, trance, vagary, wraith, castle in the air, head trip, mental picture, pie in the sky, pipe dream