noun

1. a sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc. passing through a sleeping person's mind
2. a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; daydream; fantasy; reverie
3. the state, as of abstraction or reverie, in which such a daydream occurs
4. a fond hope or aspiration
5. anything so lovely, charming, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike

Etymology: ME dream, dreme: form < OE dream, joy, music < IE base *dher-, to buzz, hum (> dorbeetle); sense < ON draumr, akin to Ger traum, Du droom < IE base *dhreugh-, to deceive

intransitive verb dreamed or dreamt (dremt), dreaming dream′·ing

1. to have a dream or dreams
2. to have daydreams
3. to think (of) as at all possible, desirable, etc. I wouldn't dream of going

transitive verb

1. 1. to have (a dream or dreams)
   2. to have a dream of
2. to spend in dreaming: with away or out
3. to imagine as possible; fancy; suppose

adjective