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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.
   


Results 1 - 5 of 5 found about dream:

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Dream, definition of term: Dream
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Wet Dream >> W Words
Wet Dream, definition of term: Wet Dream
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To Dream >> T Words
To Dream, definition of term: To Dream
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Pipe Dream >> P Words
Pipe Dream, definition of term: Pipe Dream
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American Dream >> A Words
American Dream, definition of term: American Dream
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