Dream

Definition of Dream

Pronunciation: drēmd

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.

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.

v. i.

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.

[imp. & p. p. Dreamed (drēmd) or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.]

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.

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
to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. - Dryden.

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