Dreamer
['driːmə] or ['drimɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who dreams.
(n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
Editor: Rena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder.
Checker: Olivier
Examples
- What am I but another dreamer, Rick? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Fate had been benign to the blissful dreamer, and promised to favour her yet again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object? Plato. The Republic.
- Dreamer, fool, boaster were among the appellations bestowed upon him by unbelieving critics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Emma, you are a great dreamer, I think? Jane Austen. Emma.
- A very different Holmes, this active, alert man, from the introspective and pallid dreamer of Baker Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I know this is the talk of a dreamer--of a rapt, romantic lunatic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You are a worker, not a dreamer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The darkness closed round the pilgrim at the marble tomb--closed round the veiled woman from the grave--closed round the dreamer who looked on them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the Old World, scientists generally still declared the impossibility of subdividing the electric-light current, and in the public press Mr. Edison was denounced as a dreamer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You are such a dreamer,' said the boy, with his former petulance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They said, Lo, here is this dreamer--let us kill him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am a great dreamer. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Happy are dreamers, he continued, so that they be not awakened! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- So I am, said Will, abruptly, speaking with that kind of double soul which belongs to dreamers who answer questions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For scientific men would have been thought to be mere theoretical dreamers, totally lacking in social efficiency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Stanley