dream

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/ˈdɹiːm/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Thoughts and images experienced during sleep.

  2. 02

    noun

    A strong hope or wish for the future.

Examples

  • How could I be a robot? Robots don't dream.

  • I had a really weird dream last night.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A hope or wish.

  2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To imagine or hope for something.

More examples

In context

  • I have a dream.

  • have a dream

  • Last night I had a dream about an immortal snail that chased me around and could kill me if it touched me.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English drem, from Old English drēam (“music, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, from earlier *draugmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrowgʰ-mos, from *dʰrewgʰ- (“to deceive, injure, damage”). The sense of "dream", though not attested in Old English, may still have been present (compare Old Saxon drōm (“bustle, revelry, jubilation", also "dream”)), and was undoubtedly reinforced later in Middle English by Old Norse draumr (“dream”), from same Proto-Germanic root. Cognate with Scots dreme (“dream”), Saterland Frisian Droom (“dream”), West Frisian dream (“dream”), Dutch droom (“dream”), German Traum (“dream”), Limburgish Droum (“dream”), Luxembourg...