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 Definitions of pipe dream  [ɪp]  

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Definition of 'pipe dream' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pipe dream
a fanciful or unrealistic notion, hope, or plan.


Definition of 'pipe dream' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (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"


Translation of 'pipe dream' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: an idea which can only be imagined, and which would be impossible to carry out
For most people a journey round the world is only a pipe dream.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: onbereikbare droom Arabic flag Arabic: أوْهام، تَخَيُّلات Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: неосъществима мечта
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sonho Czech flag Czech: vidina German flag German: das Hirngespinst
Danish flag Danish: ønskedrøm Greek flag Greek: χίμαιρα Spanish flag Spanish: sueño imposible, castillo
Estonian flag Estonian: soovunelm Farsi flag Farsi: رویا Finnish flag Finnish: toiveuni
French flag French: château en Espagne Hebrew flag Hebrew: חָלוֹם בְאַספּמיָא Hindi flag Hindi: मन के लड्डू, झोंक
Croatian flag Croatian: pusti snovi, prazno mašta Hungarian flag Hungarian: vágyálom Indonesian flag Indonesian: khayalan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: draumórar Italian flag Italian: (progetto irrealizzabile) Japanese flag Japanese: 空想
Korean flag Korean: 공상적인 생각 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nepasiekiama svajonė Latvian flag Latvian: fantāzija; nepiepildāms s
Malay flag Malay: angan-angan Dutch flag Dutch: hersenschim Norwegian flag Norwegian: ønskedrøm, luftslott
Polish flag Polish: mrzonka Persian flag Persian: رویا Pashto flag Pashto: خوب او خیال
Portuguese flag Portuguese: sonho Romanian flag Romanian: vis irealizabil Russian flag Russian: несбыточная мечта
Slovak flag Slovak: vzdušný zámok, vidina Slovenian flag Slovenian: prazne sanje Serbian flag Serbian: san
Swedish flag Swedish: önskedröm Thai flag Thai: เรื่องเพ้อฝัน Turkish flag Turkish: hayâl, düş
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (永不可能實現)空想 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: нездійсненна мрія; план, Urdu flag Urdu: دور کي کوڑي
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: ý nghĩ viển vông Chinese flag Chinese: 白日梦,幻想

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