I.
noun
1 while you are asleep
ADJECTIVE
▪ awful , bad , disturbing , horrible , terrible
▪
a child frightened by a bad ~
▪ bizarre , odd , strange , weird
▪ fevered
▪ pleasant
▪ lucid , vivid
▪ erotic , wet
▪ recurrent , recurring
▪ prophetic
▪
He had a prophetic ~ about a train crash the night before the disaster.
▪ day (usually daydream ) , waking
▪
His waking ~ was rudely interrupted by the telephone.
VERB + DREAM
▪ dream , have
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She fell asleep and dreamed strange ~s.
▪
I had a very disturbing ~ last night.
▪ awake from , wake from
▪ be awoken from , be woken from
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I was awoken from my ~ by a knock at the door.
▪ remember
▪
I hardly ever remember my ~s.
▪ interpret
▪ haunt , invade , plague
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Images of the crash still haunted his ~s years later.
DREAM + VERB
▪ come true
▪
I hope my ~ about prison won't come true!
▪ haunt sb , plague sb
▪
vivid ~s that regularly haunted him
▪
She is plagued by strange ~s.
▪ fade , fade away
▪
She opened her eyes and the ~ faded.
DREAM + NOUN
▪ interpretation
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
▪
In her ~, she was on board a ship heading for America.
▪ ~ about
▪
a recurrent ~ about being late for an exam
PHRASES
▪ as (if) in a ~
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She found herself standing in front of the crowded hall and making her speech, as if in a ~.
▪ sweet ~s
▪
‘Sweet ~s!’ she said, turning off the light.
2 sth that you want very much to happen
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , great
▪
Her biggest ~ was to become a singer.
▪ lifelong , long-held
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her lifelong ~ of swimming with dolphins
▪ boyhood , childhood
▪ distant
▪
His plans to travel the world now seemed like a distant ~.
▪ crazy , impossible
▪
Peace no longer seemed an impossible ~.
▪ pipe
▪
He spent his life chasing pipe ~s (= fantasies that are unlikely to come true) .
▪ unfulfilled , unrealized
▪ broken , shattered
▪ utopian
▪ romantic
▪
She had this romantic ~ of living in a windmill.
VERB + DREAM
▪ cherish , have
▪
the great utopian ~ that they have cherished for so long
▪ achieve , fulfil/fulfill , live , live out , realize
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At last his ~s were fulfilled.
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By this stage in my life I expected to be living the ~.
▪ chase , follow , pursue
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He left his job to pursue his ~ of opening a restaurant.
▪ abandon
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He never abandoned his ~ of finding his real mother.
▪ crush , shatter
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The injury shattered her ~ of running in the Olympics.
▪ keep alive
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The victory keeps San Marino's ~ of a World Cup place alive.
DREAM + VERB
▪ come true
▪
He put all his efforts into making his ~ of a united country come true.
▪ turn into a nightmare , turn sour ( esp. BrE )
▪
Their ~ turned into a nightmare as the ship began to sink.
DREAM + NOUN
▪ holiday ( BrE ), home , house , job , vacation ( AmE )
▪
After Betty retired, she designed and built her ~ house.
▪ land (usually dreamland ) ( esp. BrE ), world
▪
The government is living in a ~ world if they think voters will agree to higher taxes.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
their ~ of a fairer world
PHRASES
▪ the American ~
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Born a poor boy in Kansas, he lived the American ~ as a successful inventor.
▪ the … of sb's ~s
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the house of her ~s
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the girl of his ~s
▪ beyond sb's wildest ~s
▪
They achieved a success beyond their wildest ~s.
▪ a ~ come true
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Their cruise in the Bahamas was a ~ come true.
▪ hopes and ~s
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She confided in him all her hopes and ~s.
▪ live the ~
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At last I feel I'm living the ~.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ always
▪
As a child she always ~ed of working with animals.
▪ often
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He often ~ed of owning a house right on the beach.
▪ never
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I never ~ed I'd actually get the job.
▪ still
▪ long
▪
People have long ~ed of an egalitarian society.
▪ just , only
▪
It was the kind of trip most of us can only ~ about.
VERB + DREAM
▪ wouldn't
▪
I wouldn't ~ of going without you (= I would never go without you) .
PREPOSITION
▪ about , of
Dream is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ dream