dream

dream
    n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
         sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: {dream},
         {dreaming}]
    2: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
       dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: {dream},
       {dreaming}]
    3: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"
       [syn: {ambition}, {aspiration}, {dream}]
    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}, {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 or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
    v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: {dream},
         {daydream}, {woolgather}, {stargaze}]
    2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He
       dreamt a strange scene"
    

Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed} (dr[=e]md) or
   {Dreamt} (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS.
   dr[=e]man, dr[=y]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.
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   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.
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            Here may we sit and dream
            Over the heavenly theme.              --Keble.
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            They dream on in a constant course of reading, but
            not digesting.                        --Locke.
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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.
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            Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            I had a dream which was not all a dream. --Byron.
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   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.
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            There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
            Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. --Pope.
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            It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim
            which they propose.                   --J. C.
                                                  Shairp.
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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.
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         Your old men shall dream dreams.         --Acts ii. 17.
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         At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
         And dreamt the future fight.             --Dryden.
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         And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
                                                  --Cowper.
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   {To dream away} {To dream out}, {To dream 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.
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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).
    

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      Miss America, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness,
      absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, ace, ache, airy hope,
      airy nothing, aspiration, assume, autism, bad dream,
      bathing beauty, be absent, be afraid, beau ideal, beaut, beauty,
      beauty contest winner, beauty queen, believe, belle, bemusement,
      brown study, bubble, bunny, castle-building, charmer, chimera,
      conceive, conclude, conjure up, consider, corker, cover girl,
      crackerjack, crave, daisy, dandy, darb, daresay, daydream,
      daydreamer, daydreaming, dazzler, deception, deduce, deem,
      delirium tremens, deluded belief, delusion, depth of thought,
      dereism, dilly, divagate, divine, dream of, dream vision, dreaming,
      dreamland, dreamworld, enchantress, engrossment, expect,
      false belief, fancy, fantasy, fantasying, feel, fit of abstraction,
      flight of fancy, freak out, gather, go woolgathering, golden dream,
      grant, great beauty, hallucinate, hallucination, hallucinosis,
      hanker, high goal, honey, humdinger, hunger, idealism, ideals,
      ignis fatuus, illusion, imagine, incubus, infer, killer-diller,
      knockout, lady fair, let, let be, lollapaloosa, looker, lulu, lust,
      mind-expansion, mirage, misbelief, misconception, model, moon,
      mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy,
      nightmare, opine, paragon, peach, phantasm, pine, pinup,
      pinup girl, pip, pipe, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming,
      pippin, prefigure, preoccupation, presume, presuppose, presurmise,
      provisionally accept, pussycat, quixotic ideal, rainbow,
      raving beauty, reaching high, reckon, reigning beauty, repute,
      reverie, say, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion,
      sex kitten, sigh, slick chick, speculation, stargaze, stargazing,
      stray, study, stunner, suppose, surmise, suspect, sweetheart, take,
      take for, take for granted, take it, think, thirst, trance, trick,
      trip, tripping, understand, unreal hope, upward looking, utopia,
      vapor, vision, wander, whiz, woolgathering, wrong impression