dream

Meanings

Noun

• a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
  • "I had a dream about you last night"
• imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
  • "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
• a cherished desire
• a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
  • "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
• a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
  • "he went about his work as if in a dream"
• someone or something wonderful
  • "this dessert is a dream"

Verb

• have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
• experience while sleeping
  • "She claims to never dream"
  • "He dreamt a strange scene"

Synonyms

ambition, aspiration, daydream, dreaming, pipe dream, stargaze, woolgather