'Dream' definitions:
Definition of 'dream'
(from WordNet)
noun
A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream, dreaming]
noun
Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream, dreaming]
noun
A cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream]
noun
A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: pipe dream, dream]
noun
A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
noun
Someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
verb
verb
Experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"
Definition of 'Dream'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Dream'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Dream'
From: 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]
Definition of 'dream'
From: Easton
- Dream God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph (37:9-11), Gideon (Judg. 7), and Solomon (1 Kings 3:5). Other significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of Abimelech (Gen. 20:3-7), Pharaoh's chief butler and baker (40:5), Pharaoh (41:1-8), the Midianites (Judg. 7:13), Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:1; 4:10, 18), the wise men from the east (Matt. 2:12), and Pilate's wife (27:19).
- To Joseph "the Lord appeared in a dream," and gave him instructions regarding the infant Jesus (Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13, 19). In a vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before Paul and said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (Acts 16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23).
Synonyms of 'dream'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorption,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- ace,
- ache,
- airy hope,
- airy nothing,
- aspiration,
- assume,
- autism,
- bad dream,
- bathing beauty,
- be absent,
- be afraid,
- beau ideal,
- beaut,
- beauty,
- beauty contest winner,
- beauty queen,
- believe,
- belle,
- bemusement,
- brown study,
- bubble,
- bunny,
- castle-building,
- charmer,
- chimera,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- conjure up,
- consider,
- corker,
- cover girl,
- crackerjack,
- crave,
- daisy,
- dandy,
- darb,
- daresay,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- dazzler,
- deception,
- deduce,
- deem,
- delirium tremens,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- depth of thought,
- dereism,
- dilly,
- divagate,
- divine,
- dream of,
- dream vision,
- dreaming,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- enchantress,
- engrossment,
- expect,
- false belief,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- feel,
- fit of abstraction,
- flight of fancy,
- freak out,
- gather,
- go woolgathering,
- golden dream,
- grant,
- great beauty,
- hallucinate,
- hallucination,
- hallucinosis,
- hanker,
- high goal,
- honey,
- humdinger,
- hunger,
- idealism,
- ideals,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imagine,
- incubus,
- infer,
- killer-diller,
- knockout,
- lady fair,
- let,
- let be,
- lollapaloosa,
- looker,
- lulu,
- lust,
- mind-expansion,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- Miss America,
- model,
- moon,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- nightmare,
- opine,
- paragon,
- peach,
- phantasm,
- pine,
- pinup,
- pinup girl,
- pip,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pippin,
- prefigure,
- preoccupation,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- provisionally accept,
- pussycat,
- quixotic ideal,
- rainbow,
- raving beauty,
- reaching high,
- reckon,
- reigning beauty,
- repute,
- reverie,
- say,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sex kitten,
- sigh,
- slick chick,
- speculation,
- stargaze,
- stargazing,
- stray,
- study,
- stunner,
- suppose,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- sweetheart,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- think,
- thirst,
- trance,
- trick,
- trip,
- tripping,
- understand,
- unreal hope,
- upward looking,
- utopia,
- vapor,
- vision,
- Walter Mitty,
- wander,
- whiz,
- woolgathering,
- wrong impression