DREAM


Meaning of DREAM in English

n. 25B6; noun

I awoke from my dreams : REM sleep; nightmare; vision, fantasy, hallucination.

she went around in a dream : DAYDREAM, reverie, trance, daze, stupor, haze; Scottish dwam.

he realized his childhood dream : AMBITION, aspiration, hope; goal, aim, objective, grail, intention, intent, target; desire, wish, yearning; daydream, fantasy, pipe dream.

he's an absolute dream : DELIGHT, joy, marvel, wonder, gem, treasure; beauty, vision.

25B6; verb

she dreamed of her own funeral : HAVE A DREAM, have a nightmare.

I dreamt of making the Olympic team : FANTASIZE ABOUT, daydream about; WISH FOR, hope for, long for, yearn for, hanker after, set one's heart on; aspire to, aim for, set one's sights on.

she's always dreaming : DAYDREAM, be in a trance, be lost in thought, be preoccupied, be abstracted, stare into space, be in cloud cuckoo land; muse.

I wouldn't dream of being late : THINK, consider, contemplate, conceive.

25B6; adjective his dream home : IDEAL, perfect, fantasy.

25A0; dream something up THINK UP, invent, concoct, devise, hatch, contrive, create, work out, come up with; informal cook up.

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