dream

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: dreamingambitionaspirationpipe dreamdaydreamwoolgatherstargaze

WordNet 3.0

Noun (6)

  1. a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep“I had a dream about you last night”Synonyms: dreaming
  2. imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake“he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality”Synonyms: dreaming
  3. a cherished desire“his ambition is to own his own business”Synonyms: ambitionaspiration
  4. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)“I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe”Synonyms: pipe dream
  5. a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality“he went about his work as if in a dream”
  6. someone or something wonderful“this dessert is a dream”

Verb (2)

  1. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasySynonyms: daydreamwoolgatherstargaze
  2. experience while sleeping“She claims to never dream”“He dreamt a strange scene”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Dream \Dream\, v. t. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause. [1913 Webster]

Your old men shall dream dreams. --Acts ii. 17. [1913 Webster]

At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

And still they dream that they shall still succeed. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

To dream away To dream out, To dream through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?" --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Dream \Dream\ (dr[=e]m), n. [Akin to OS. dr[=o]m, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dr["o]m; cf. G. tr["u]gen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dre['a]m joy, gladness, and OS. dr[=o]m joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.]

1.The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. [1913 Webster]

Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
I had a dream which was not all a dream.— Byron.[1913 Webster]

2.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. [1913 Webster]

There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream.— Pope.[1913 Webster]
It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose.— J. C. Shairp.[1913 Webster]
Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed (dr[=e]md) or Dreamt (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS. dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See Dream, n.]

1.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. [1913 Webster]

2.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. [1913 Webster]

Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme.— Keble.[1913 Webster]
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting.— Locke.[1913 Webster]
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