Definition/Meaning of dream

• English - Noun: dream ( plural dreams ) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping . John Dryden (1631-1700) Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes . Lord Byron (1788-1824) I had a dream which was not all a dream . 1914 , Louis Joseph Vance , Nobody , chapter II: She wakened in sharp panic , bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact…
• English - Verb: dream ( third-person singular simple present dreams , present participle dreaming , simple past and past participle dreamed or dreamt or ( dated ) drempt ) ( intransitive ) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping . ( intransitive ) To hope , to wish . ( intransitive ) To daydream . Stop dreaming and get back to work . ( transitive ) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually…
• English - Pronunciation: enPR: drēm , IPA (key) : /dɹiːm/ ( General American ) IPA (key) : /dɹim/ , [d͡ʒɹim] Rhymes: -iːm
• English - Etymology: From Middle English dreem , from Old English drēam ( “ joy , pleasure , gladness , delight , mirth , rejoicing , rapture , ecstasy , frenzy , music , musical instrument , harmony , melody , song , singing , jubilation , sound of music ” ), from Proto-Germanic *draumaz , *draugmaz ( “ festivity , dream , ghost , hallucination , delusion , deception ” ), from Proto-Germanic *draugaz ( “ delusion ,…
• English - References: ^ “dream” in Douglas Harper , Online Etymology Dictionary (2001)..