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1. (n.) dream
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
2. dream
a particular sequence of such images, thoughts, or feelings:
a recurring dream about a circus.
3. dream
an involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake.
4. dream
a daydream or reverie.
5. dream
an aspiration; goal; aim.
6. dream
a wild or vain fancy.
7. dream
something of unreal or striking beauty, charm, or excellence.
8. (v.i.) dream
to have a dream.
9. dream
to indulge in daydreams or reveries.
10. dream
to conceive of something in a very remote way (usu. fol. by of):
I wouldn't dream of leaving.
11. (v.t.) dream
to see or imagine in sleep or in a vision.
12. dream
to imagine as possible; fancy; conceive.
13. dream
to pass or spend (time) in dreaming (often fol. by away):
to dream away the afternoon.
14. dream
dream up, to form in the imagination; devise.
15. (adj.) dream
most desirable; ideal:
a dream vacation.
Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME dreem, OE drēam joy, mirth)
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| Definition of 'Dream' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) dream, dreaming
a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
"I had a dream about you last night"
2. (noun) dream, dreaming
imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
"he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
3. (noun) ambition, aspiration, dream
a cherished desire
"his ambition is to own his own business"
4. (noun) pipe dream, dream
a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
"I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
5. (noun) dream
a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
"he went about his work as if in a dream"
6. (verb) dream
someone or something wonderful
"this dessert is a dream"
7. (verb) dream, daydream, woolgather, stargaze
have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
8. (verb) dream
experience while sleeping
"She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"
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1. (noun) dream
images that you see in your sleep
I had a bad dream last night.
2. dream
sth you wish would happen
It was his dream to be a baseball player.; sb's dream vacation/house/car etc.
3. dream
a dream come true
sth that you dreamed of that happens
Finding this house was a dream come true.
4. dream
not in your (wildest) dreams
indicates you did not believe sth would happen
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd win.
5. dream
like a dream
in the best possible way
The car drives like a dream.
6. (verb) dream
to have a dream while you sleep
I was dreaming about you.; I dreamt that my grandfather was alive.; Was I awake, or did I dream it?
7. dream
to wish for sth
She dreamt of winning gold at the Olympics.; I always dreamt that one day I'd live in a big house.
8. (adjective) dream
of the best kind you can imagine
the dream team; my dream car/house/vacation
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| Definition of 'Dream' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Dream
the thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision
2. (noun) Dream
a visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth
3. (noun) Dream
to have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend
4. (noun) Dream
to let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine
5. (verb) Dream
to have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause
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| Definitions of 'Dream' |
The Roycroft Dictionary |
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Dream
1. A place where the starving feel the pangs of gluttony, and the threadbare wear opera-hats and spats.
2. A magic mirror wherein the dead appear to mock us with their happiness.
3. A cerebral phenomenon caused on upper Fifth Avenue by eating too much, and on the lower East Side by eating too little.
4. The Valhalla and the Welsh Rabbit; the Brocken where the souls of the animals, fish and birds we have eaten hold their revels; a private theater where indigestion is the prompter.
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Sense: thoughts and pictures in the mind that come mostly during sleep
I had a terrible dream last night.
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 Afrikaans: droom |
 Arabic: حُلْم |
 Bulgarian: сън |
 Brazilian: sonho |
 Czech: sen |
 German: der Traum |
 Danish: drøm |
 Greek: όνειρο |
 Spanish: sueño |
 Estonian: unenägu |
 Farsi: خواب؛ رویا |
 Finnish: uni |
 French: rêve |
 Hebrew: חֲלוֹם |
 Hindi: स्वप्न, सपने |
 Croatian: san |
 Hungarian: álom |
 Indonesian: mimpi |
 Icelandic: draumur |
 Italian: sogno |
 Japanese: 夢 |
 Korean: 꿈 |
 Lithuanian: sapnas |
 Latvian: sapnis |
 Malay: mimpi |
 Dutch: droom |
 Norwegian: drøm |
 Polish: sen |
 Persian: خواب؛ رویا |
 Pashto: خوب |
 Portuguese: sonho |
 Romanian: vis |
 Russian: сон |
 Slovak: sen |
 Slovenian: sanje |
 Serbian: san |
 Swedish: dröm |
 Thai: ความฝัน |
 Turkish: düş, rüya |
 Taiwanese: 夢 |
 Ukrainian: dreadful |
 Urdu: خواب |
 Vietnamese: giấc mơ |
 Chinese: 梦 |
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