INDEX:
1. a dream
2. to have a dream
RELATED WORDS
something that you want very much : ↑ WANT/NOT WANT
imagine something pleasant : ↑ IMAGINE (2)
see also
↑ SLEEP
↑ WAKE UP/GET UP
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1. a dream
▷ dream /driːm/ [countable noun]
a series of events that you seem to experience while you are asleep :
▪ I never remember my dreams when I wake up.
▪ When she woke, she found that it was all a dream.
dream about
▪ None of my dreams are about work.
have a dream
▪ I had a strange dream last night -- you and I were in some sort of tropical forest.
bad dream
an unpleasant or frightening dream
▪ The events of the past few days seemed like a bad dream.
recurring dream
a dream that you keep having
▪ When I was younger, I had recurring dreams in which I was constantly pursued by soldiers.
▷ nightmare /ˈnaɪtmeəʳ/ [countable noun]
a very unpleasant and frightening dream :
▪ He woke from a nightmare, trembling with fear.
have a nightmare
▪ Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.
▷ daydream /ˈdeɪdriːm/ [countable noun]
a series of pleasant thoughts that you experience when you are awake, so that you do not notice what is happening around you :
▪ Ingrid was brought out of her daydream by a shout from her mother.
in a daydream
▪ Neil seemed lost in a daydream, and didn’t hear what I said.
▷ reverie /ˈrevəri/ [countable/uncountable noun]
a state of imagining or thinking about pleasant things, that is like dreaming :
▪ The doorbell rang, shaking me from my reverie.
▪ Sometimes he would drift off into reverie, and gaze out of the window for hours.
2. to have a dream
▷ have a dream /ˌhæv ə ˈdriːm/ [verb phrase]
▪ He had a dream in which he was running through the forest, being chased by a bear.
have a dream about
▪ I keep having the same dream about trying to get across a deep river.
▷ dream /driːm/ [] past tense and past participle dreamt /dremt/ British or dreamed American
to have a dream or have dreams :
▪ Do animals dream?
▪ I hoped that someone would wake me up, that I had only been dreaming.
dream about/of
▪ I dreamt about you last night.
▪ Stephanie often dreams of long sea journeys.
dream (that)
▪ I dreamed that I was lying on a beach in the Caribbean.
▪ Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
▷ daydream /ˈdeɪdriːm/ [intransitive verb]
to think pleasant thoughts when you are awake and when you should be paying attention to something else :
▪ At school, he was always being told to ‘stop daydreaming’.
daydream about
▪ Colin began to daydream about what he would do if he won the lottery.