Canadian English Meaning of dream

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Definitions and Meaning of dream in English

Wordnet

dream (n)

a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

a cherished desire

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

a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality

someone or something wonderful

Wordnet

dream (v)

have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

experience while sleeping

Webster

dream (n.)

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

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.

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.

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.

Webster

dream (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.

FAQs About the word dream

dream

a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep, imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake, a cherished desire, a fantastic but vain hope (from

Daydream,fantasy,illusion,Vision,castle in Spain,Castle in the air,chimera,Delusion,phantasm,fiction

fact,reality,actuality

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