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Dream - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Dream : (noun)
1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dreaming]
2: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
business" [syn: ambition, aspiration]
3: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dreaming]
4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the
opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor
of the universe" [syn: pipe dream]
5: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release
from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
6: someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
(verb)
1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: daydream, woolgather,
stargaze]
2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He
dreamt a strange scene"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Dream : \Dream\, v. t.
To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or
in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
Your old men shall dream dreams. --Acts ii. 17.
At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And
dreamt the future fight. --Dryden.
And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
--Cowper.
To dream away, out, through, etc., to pass in revery or
inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an
hour; to dream through life. `` Why does Antony dream out
his hours?'' --Dryden.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dream : \Dream\ (dr[=e]m), n. [Akin to OS. dr[=o]m, D. droom, G.
traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dr["o]m; cf. G. tr["u]gen to
deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dre['a]m
joy, gladness, and OS. dr[=o]m joy are, perh., different
words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.]
1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary
transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a
sleeping vision.
Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
--Dryden.
I had a dream which was not all a dream. --Byron.
2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a
vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an
imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream
of bliss; the dream of his youth.
There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till
Fancy colored it and formed a dream. --Pope.
It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim
which they propose. --J. C.
Shairp.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dream : \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamedor Dreamt (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS. dr?man, dr?man, to
rejoice. See Dream, n.]
1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of
sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of;
as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to
anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have
a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme.
--Keble.
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but
not digesting. --Locke.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dream : God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will
to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in
the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph
(37:9-11), Gideon (Judg. 7), and Solomon (1 Kings 3:5). Other
significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of Abimelech
(Gen. 20:3-7), Pharaoh's chief butler and baker (40:5), Pharaoh
(41:1-8), the Midianites (Judg. 7:13), Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:1;
4:10, 18), the wise men from the east (Matt. 2:12), and Pilate's
wife (27:19).
To Joseph "the Lord appeared in a dream," and gave him
instructions regarding the infant Jesus (Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13,
19). In a vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before
Paul and said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (Acts
16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Dream |
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