Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Dream   /drim/   Listen
Dream

noun
1.
A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.  Synonym: dreaming.
2.
Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake.  Synonym: dreaming.
3.
A cherished desire.  Synonyms: ambition, aspiration.
4.
A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe).  Synonym: pipe dream.
5.
A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality.
6.
Someone or something wonderful.
verb
(past & past part. dreamt; pres. part. dreaming)
1.
Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy.  Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather.
2.
Experience while sleeping.  "He dreamt a strange scene"



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Dream" Quotes from Famous Books



... midst of these sore trials, the lovely face of Margaret again appeared before me, and again the vision vanished into nothing. And I told her this part of the dream, and even then could not suppress a tear that it was a dream, and that the children of W—— could never have an existence or ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various

... Jew are the spiritual races, and to them political ascendence among the nations of the earth is not promised. It was M. Renan, the great French agnostic, who said: "The fate of the Jewish people was not to form a separate nationality; it is a race which always cherishes a dream of something ...
— Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence - The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of - Slavery to the Present Time • Various

... designs and his achievements, we find an admirably sound idea and a vain dream, a great ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume I. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... flannel and leather, welcomed by a host and hostess in complete evening dress, ushered into a room which contained a carpet and a piano, and had lace curtains at the windows; seated later at a table covered with pure linen and set with real china and cut-glass. The experience was like a dream to the visitor. Temporarily, as in a dream, the evening would pass without conscious volition upon the latter's part; and not until later, when he was at home, would the full significance of the experience assert ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... they had quite fulfilled their promise. Gabriel Rossetti contributed to this interesting and historic exhibition five or six of those marvellous drawings of which mention has just been made. "Dante's Dream," the famous vision of June 9, 1290, with its counterpart, "The Anniversary of the Dream," in 1291, were the most prominent of these. A "Mary Magdalene" was perhaps the most moving and exciting. This extremely original design showed the Magdalene pursued by her lovers, but turning ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com