dream
IPA: drˈim
noun
- Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
- (figurative) A hope or wish.
- A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
verb
- (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
- (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
- (intransitive) To daydream.
- (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
- (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
adjective
- Ideal; perfect.
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Examples of "dream" in Sentences
- But it was a dream -- a _dream_, only it was horrible!
- Yeah, now that his dream job is on the horizon…..dream on, Sam.
- Cesc Fabregas says the Gunners are refusing to give up on the title dream
- Moltke: "Eternal peace is only a dream, _and not even a beautiful dream_!"
- She delights in this -- a sketch within a sketch -- a dream within _a dream_.
- But, in a long and demanding race in hot and humid conditions, Vettel knows his title dream will not be realised easily as he has to overcome not only the physical and technical challenges, but also the determination of his rivals.
- Anyway, so I got up the morning and crawled out of bed and the two feet it takes to get into my computer chair and decided that it would be a fun idea to go online and look up one of those dream dictionary sites and see what it says about my dream
- On the repetition of this same experience we were forced to the supposition that there is an _intimate bond, with laws of its own, between the unintelligible and complicated nature of the dream and the difficulties attending communication of the thoughts connected with the dream_.
- And I was not only given to dream by day -- I dreamed by night; my sleep was full of dreams -- terrible nightmares, exquisite visions, strange scenes full of inexplicable reminiscence; all vague and incoherent, like all men's dreams that have hitherto been; _for I had not yet learned how to dream_.
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