/dɹiːm/, [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷiːm], [d͡ʒɹʷiːm]
- countableImaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
“have a dream”
“scary dream”
“vivid dream”
- countable, figurativelyA hope or wish.
“have a dream”
“fulfil a dream”
“harbour a dream”
- A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
“live in a dream”
“wake up from a dream”
“impossible dream”
- US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountableAcronym of development, relief, and education for alien minors.
“For years, my state of Washington tried to pass its own state Dream Act. […] If President Trump will not protect Dreamers, Congress must immediately pass the bipartisan DREAM Act and provide permanent”
- intransitiveTo see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
“Although people primarily dream during the REM phase of sleeping, they can dream during non-REM sleep as well.”
“Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."”
- intransitiveTo hope, to wish.
“Lucy dreams of becoming a scientist when she'll grow up.”
- intransitiveTo daydream.
“Stop dreaming and get back to work.”
- transitiveTo envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
“I dreamed a vivid dream last night.”
“And still they dream that they shall still succeed.”
“At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.”
- intransitiveTo consider the possibility (of).
“I wouldn't dream of snubbing you in public.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
“But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection.
[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the”
- not-comparableIdeal; perfect.
“Gonna drive back down where you once belonged / In the back of a dream car, twenty foot long”
“If a girl who talked like that was not his dream girl, he didn't know a dream girl when he heard one.”
“England found chances a rarity, although Liverpool striker Solanke almost made it a dream debut in the closing seconds, only to miscontrol at the far post.”
Formsdreams(plural) · dreame(alternative, obsolete) · dreams(present, singular, third-person) · dreaming(participle, present) · dreamed(participle, past) · dreamed(past) · dreamt(participle, past) · dreamt(past)