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dream

UK/ˈdɹiːm/ US/ˈdɹ̝ʷɪi̯m/ very common us
noun (6) verb (2)

noun

1.

a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

  • “I had a dream about you last night”
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2.

a cherished desire

  • “his ambition is to own his own business”
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3.

imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

  • “he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality”
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4.

a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

  • “I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe”
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5.

a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality

  • “he went about his work as if in a dream”
6.

someone of something wonderful

  • “this dessert is a dream”

verb

1.
2.

experience while sleeping

  • “She claims to never dream”
  • “He dreamt a strange scene”

Origin

From Middle English dream, dreem, dreeme, drem, dreme, dræm, from Old English drēam, drēm, drīm (“joy; melody, music; frenzy”), from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz (“dream”), from earlier *draugmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrowgʰ-mos, from *dʰrewgʰ- (“to deceive”).

Phrases

  • African dream herb
  • age dream
  • American dream
  • beyond one's wildest dreams
  • cheese dream
  • dream board
  • dream catcher
  • dream come true
  • dream job
  • dream on
  • dream true
  • dream up

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