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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dream \dream\, v. i. imp. p. p. dreamed dr=emd or
dreamt dre^mt; p. pr. vb. n. dreaming. cf. as.
dr=eman, dr=yman, to rejoice. see dream, n.
1. 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.
1913 webster
2. 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.
1913 webster
here may we sit and dream
over the heavenly theme. --keble.
1913 webster
they dream on in a constant course of reading, but
not digesting. --locke.
1913 webster
see also:
dreamed dreamt dreaming dream
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dream \dream\ dr=em, n. akin to os. dr=om, d. droom, g.
traum, icel. draumr, dan. sw. dr"om; cf. g. tr"ugen to
deceive, skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. as. dre'am
joy, gladness, and os. dr=om joy are, perh., different
words; cf. gr. qry^los noise.
1. the thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary
transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a
sleeping vision.
1913 webster
dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
--dryden.
1913 webster
i had a dream which was not all a dream. --byron.
1913 webster
2. 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.
1913 webster
there sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
till fancy colored it and formed a dream. --pope.
1913 webster
it is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim
which they propose. --j. c.
shairp.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dream \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.
1913 webster
your old men shall dream dreams. --acts ii. 17.
1913 webster
at length in sleep their bodies they compose,
and dreamt the future fight. --dryden.
1913 webster
and still they dream that they shall still succeed.
--cowper.
1913 webster
to dream away to dream out, to dream through, etc., to
pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as,
to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " why does
antony dream out his hours?" --dryden.
1913 webster
see also:
to dream away to dream out to dream through
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
dream
n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
sleep; "i had a dream about you last night" syn: dreaming
2: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
business" syn: ambition, aspiration
3: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
dream that has nothing to do with reality" syn: dreaming
4: a fantastic but vain hope from fantasies induced by the
opium pipe; "i have this pipe dream about being emperor
of the universe" syn: pipe dream
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"
v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy syn: daydream, woolgather,
stargaze
2: experience while sleeping; "she claims to never dream"; "he
dreamt a strange scene"
also: dreamt
see also:
dreaming ambition aspiration pipe dream daydream woolgather
stargaze dreamt
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
182 moby thesaurus words for "dream":
miss america, walter mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness,
absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, ace, ache, airy hope,
airy nothing, aspiration, assume, autism, bad dream,
bathing beauty, be absent, be afraid, beau ideal, beaut, beauty,
beauty contest winner, beauty queen, believe, belle, bemusement,
brown study, bubble, bunny, castle-building, charmer, chimera,
conceive, conclude, conjure up, consider, corker, cover girl,
crackerjack, crave, daisy, dandy, darb, daresay, daydream,
daydreamer, daydreaming, dazzler, deception, deduce, deem,
delirium tremens, deluded belief, delusion, depth of thought,
dereism, dilly, divagate, divine, dream of, dream vision, dreaming,
dreamland, dreamworld, enchantress, engrossment, expect,
false belief, fancy, fantasy, fantasying, feel, fit of abstraction,
flight of fancy, freak out, gather, go woolgathering, golden dream,
grant, great beauty, hallucinate, hallucination, hallucinosis,
hanker, high goal, honey, humdinger, hunger, idealism, ideals,
ignis fatuus, illusion, imagine, incubus, infer, killer-diller,
knockout, lady fair, let, let be, lollapaloosa, looker, lulu, lust,
mind-expansion, mirage, misbelief, misconception, model, moon,
mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy,
nightmare, opine, paragon, peach, phantasm, pine, pinup,
pinup girl, pip, pipe, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming,
pippin, prefigure, preoccupation, presume, presuppose, presurmise,
provisionally accept, pussycat, quixotic ideal, rainbow,
raving beauty, reaching high, reckon, reigning beauty, repute,
reverie, say, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion,
sex kitten, sigh, slick chick, speculation, stargaze, stargazing,
stray, study, stunner, suppose, surmise, suspect, sweetheart, take,
take for, take for granted, take it, think, thirst, trance, trick,
trip, tripping, understand, unreal hope, upward looking, utopia,
vapor, vision, wander, whiz, woolgathering, wrong impression
- [6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
dream
god has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will
to men. the most remarkable instances of this are recorded in
the history of jacob gen. 28:12; 31:10, laban 31:24, joseph
37:9-11, gideon judg. 7, and solomon 1 kings 3:5. other
significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of abimelech
gen. 20:3-7, pharaoh's chief butler and baker 40:5, pharaoh
41:1-8, the midianites judg. 7:13, nebuchadnezzar dan. 2:1;
4:10, 18, the wise men from the east matt. 2:12, and pilate's
wife 27:19.
to joseph "the lord appeared in a dream," and gave him
instructions regarding the infant jesus matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13,
19. in a vision of the night a "man of macedonia" stood before
paul and said, "come over into macedonia and help us" acts
16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23.
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