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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"



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"Dream" Quotes from Famous Books



... can never tell you how this line of thought then impressed a country boy. I do not remember anything about the remainder of that walk, nor of the after-incidents of that day,—I only remember that I went home wondering about that mystical dream of the Universal Spirit, and about what manner of man he was under whose influence I had for the first ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... poured it out. And, watching her, there came to him a vision of the bright morning room at Hurst Dormer, a vision of all the old familiar things he had known since boyhood: and in that vision, that day-dream, he saw her sitting where his mother once had sat, and she was pouring out tea, even ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper

... miss the sidewise roll Of palanquins in Something-Chang, Or sigh for little bells that toll Beside the Si-kiang, And dream-dogs of your old ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 • Various

... and the cream which Dave Tower and Jarvis saw before them on the wooden tray in the cabin of the mysterious Russian were part of no dream, but a glorious reality. Their palates testified to ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell

... may be said that his sleep was not natural, but was the sleep of prophecy, according to Num. 12:6: "If there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream." In such cases the use ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas


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