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dream noun2 & adjective. [dri:m] ME.
[Corresp. in sense to Old Frisian dram, Old Saxon drom (Dutch droom), Old High German troum (German Traum), Old Norse draumr. Perh. rel. to DREAM noun1.]
A. noun.
A series of thoughts, images, sensations, or emotions occurring in the mind during sleep. ME.
S. Johnson Striving, as is usual in dreams, without ability to move.
A vision of the imagination indulged in when awake, esp. one prompted by desire, hope, or ambition; a flight of fancy; a state of mind in which awareness of immediate reality is temporarily shut out, a reverie. See also DAYDREAM noun. LME.
W. Dampier These may seem to the Reader but Golden Dreams. G. Greene He stood in a dream, fingering his long grey moustache.
Something seen in a dream; a vision. M17.
Milton Suddenly stood at my Head a dream.
An exceptionally enjoyable or attractive person or thing. L19.
K. Tennant I picked up a dress in Innes thats a dream.
An enduring hope or aspiration; an ideal. E20.
L. M. Montgomery It's always been one of my dreams to live near a brook. M. Mitchell He was still a young girl's dream of the Perfect Knight.
Phrases: American dream: see AMERICAN adjective. in your dreams colloq. (as a sarcastic or resigned comment on an unlikely situation): you are deluding yourself, that cannot happen. like a dream colloq. easily, effortlessly. loves' young dream: see LOVE noun. OPIUM dream. sweet dreams: see SWEET adjective & adverb. waking dream an involuntary dream occurring when awake. wet dream: see WET adjective.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Such as one dreams of or longs for; ideal; perfect. Cf. DREAMY 4. L19.
P. G. Wodehouse I wasn't everybody's dream girl. D. Eden She planned her dream home.
Comb. & special collocations: dreamboat colloq. a very attractive thing or person (esp. of the opposite sex); dream-book: containing interpretations of dreams; dream-catcher a North American Indian charm, consisting of a wooden or leather hoop with a webbed centre made of strands of thread, which is decorated with feathers, stones, beads, etc. and hung above the bed to catch dreams (usu. described as entrapping bad dreams, but sometimes said to preserve good dreams); dreamland an ideal or imaginary land; dreamscape a scene dreamed; a dream-like picture, a dream-world; a (literary) description of a dream; dream ticket (the conjunction of) an ideal pair of candidates standing together for political office; dream-time Austral. = ALCHERINGA; dream vision (a poem in) a form freq. used by medieval poets, in which the poet recounts an alleged dream often open to allegorical interpretation; dreamworld a state of mind distanced from reality.
dreamery noun (a) a place conducive to dreaming; (b) dreaminess; the material of dreams: E19.
dreamful adjective full of dreams; dreamy: M16.
dreamfully adverb L19.
dreamfulness noun E20.
dreamish adjective (rare) rather dreamy L16.
dreamless adjective E17.
dreamlessly adverb L19.
dreamlessness noun E20.
dreamlike adjective appearing unreal, vague, or shadowy, as in a dream E19.