dreamlike

Variant of dream

dream definition

dream (drēm)

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

adjective

that realizes one's fondest hopes; ideal her dream house

Related Forms:

dream Idioms

dream up

Informal to conceive of or devise, as by giving free rein to the imagination

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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