Dream
[driːm] or [drim]
Definition
(noun.) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; 'he went about his work as if in a dream'.
(noun.) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; 'I had a dream about you last night'.
(noun.) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; 'he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality'.
(noun.) someone or something wonderful; 'this dessert is a dream'.
(verb.) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy.
(verb.) experience while sleeping; 'She claims to never dream'; 'He dreamt a strange scene'.
Typed by Jack--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(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.
Checked by Freda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sleeping vision.[2]. Reverie, fancy, fantasy, conceit, idle fancy, day-dream.
v. n. [1]. Have visions in sleep.[2]. Think, imagine, fancy, have a notion.[3]. Give a loose rein to the fancy, give the reins to the imagination, indulge in reverie, build castles in the air.
Checked by Amy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trance, vision, fancy, reverie, hallucination, romance
ANT:Fact, reality, substance, verify, realization
Inputed by Franklin
Definition
n. a train of thoughts and fancies during sleep a vision: something only imaginary.—v.i. to fancy things during sleep: to think idly.—v.t. to see in or as in a dream:—pa.t. and pa.p. dreamed or dreamt (dremt).—ns. Dream′er; Dream′ery a place favourable to dreams: dream-work.—adj. Dream′ful (Tenn.) dreamy.—n. Dream′hole one of the holes in the walls of steeples towers &c. for admitting light.—adv. Dream′ily.—n. Dream′iness.—adv. Dream′ingly.—n. Dream′land the land of dreams reverie or imagination.—adj. Dream′less free from dreams.—ns. Dream′while the duration of a dream; Dream′world a world of illusions.—adj. Dream′y full of dreams: appropriate to dreams: dream-like.
Checked by Angelique
Unserious Contents or Definition
What a man may call a woman, though a Pill may have suggested it. Sweethearts are dreams because they seldom come true; wives, because they're often a night-mare, and both because they go by contraries.
Edited by Emily
Examples
- To-morrow, loveliest and best, hope and joy of my life, to-morrow I will see thee--Fool, to dream of a moment's delay! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- During my journey I might dream, and with buoyant wings reach the summit of life's high edifice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But still I felt as if my eyes must start out of my head, and as if this must be a dream. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- On sped my rainbow, fast as light; I flew as in a dream; For glorious rose upon my sight That child of Shower and Gleam. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now, Eustacia's dream had always been that, once married to Clym, she would have the power of inducing him to return to Paris. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In my reverie, methought I saw the continent of Europe, like a wide dream-land, far away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Sleep, sweetly--I gild thy dreams! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With dreams of all you most desire. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am not reckless enough to try to pronounce it when I am awake, but I make a stagger at it in my dreams, and get up with the lockjaw in the morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My dreams, last night, were dreams I have never had before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I never dreamed a man could have such patience and perseverance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am not sufficiently acquainted with such subjects to know whether it is at all remarkable that I almost always dreamed of that period of my life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But I fell asleep before I had succeeded, and dreamed of the days when I lived in my godmother's house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Even this imperfect consciousness faded away at last, and he dreamed a long, troubled dream. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Such an elaborately developed, perplexing, exciting dream was certainly never dreamed by a girl in Eustacia's situation before. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I have always dreamed of myself as a child learning to do needlework. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You have been dreaming again! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Hardly a night passed without my dreaming of it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was miraculously conceived through his mother dreaming of a beautiful white elephant! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Little wife, thou must be dreaming! Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Dreaming, for ever dreaming, Windsor! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I dreamt that I took you to her house to make up differences, and when we got there we couldn't get in, though she kept on crying to us for help. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then I must have dreamt itbut I was completely persuadedMiss Smith, you walk as if you were tired. Jane Austen. Emma.
- For a week of nights and days I fell asleep--I dreamt, and I woke upon these two questions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I thought it might be the other, but I never dreamt of that one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I wish I had never lived to see this; it is too much for me--it is more than I dreamt! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was ordained a priest in 1538, and a year later his long-dreamt-of order was founded under the military title of the Company of Jesus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Freddie