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/drˈimər/ Listen

noun

Dreamer n.

One who dreams.

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

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Etymology of 'Dreamer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dreamer" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the dreamer priests is represented. After reaching the spirit world, Bianki found himself on a vast prairie covered with innumerable buffaloes and ponies. He went through the herds (dotted lines) until he came to a large Kiowa camp, ...

— Myths and Legends of the Great Plains • Unknown

... a seer of visions or a dreamer of dreams. On the contrary, the accounts of him which have come down to us describe him as a stalwart athlete, who "could lift a barrel of cider from the ground and put it in a wagon," and who once, being cornered and attacked by a bull, seized the animal's nose ...

— Peter Cooper - The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4 • Rossiter W. Raymond

... period of general social relaxation usually known as the Dark Ages was superceded by the multiple innovations of the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the scientific-technical developments of the 1750-1970 Revolution, man the dreamer, inventor, designer, planner, architect and engineer has modified many aspects of nature and transformed the ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... business connected with a family legacy with his father. Since the outbreak of the Reform Movement there had been frequent disputes between the father and son, if aggressive attack on the one side and silent endurance on the other make a dispute. Barron scorned his eldest son, as a faddist and a dreamer; while Stephen could never remember the time when his father had not seemed to him the living embodiment of prejudice, obstinacy, and caprice. He had always reckoned it indeed the crowning proof of Meynell's unworldly optimism that, at the moment of his father's accession to the White House ...

— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Dreamer, waken; loiterer, hasten; what thy task is understand: Thou art here to purchase substance, and the price is in ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

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