dream

dream [drēm]

n.

[ME dream, dreme: form < OE dream, joy, music < IE base * dher-, to buzz, hum (> DORBEETLE); sense < ON draumr, akin to Ger traum, Du droom < IE base * dhreugh-, to deceive]

1. a sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc. passing through a sleeping person's mind

2. a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; daydream; fantasy; reverie

3. the state, as of abstraction or reverie, in which such a daydream occurs

4. a fond hope or aspiration

5. anything so lovely, charming, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike

vi.

dreamed or dreamt [dremt] dreaming

1. to have a dream or dreams

2. to have daydreams

3. to think (of) as at all possible, desirable, etc. [I wouldn't dream of going]

vt.

1.

a) to have (a dream or dreams)

b) to have a dream of

2. to spend in dreaming: with away or out

3. to imagine as possible; fancy; suppose

adj.

that realizes one's fondest hopes; ideal [her dream house]

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dream up

Informal to conceive of or devise, as by giving free rein to the imagination

dreamful

adj.

dreamlike

adj.