Associations to the word «dream»

Pictures for the word «dream»

Wiktionary

DREAM, noun. Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
DREAM, noun. A hope or wish.
DREAM, noun. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
DREAM, verb. (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
DREAM, verb. (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
DREAM, verb. (intransitive) To daydream.
DREAM, verb. (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
DREAM, verb. (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
DREAM CATCHER, noun. Alternative spelling of dreamcatcher
DREAM CATCHERS, noun. Plural of dream catcher
DREAM COME TRUE, noun. Something which has long been desired or hoped for and which has finally happened.
DREAM FACTORY, noun. (informal) (US) A film studio
DREAM HOUSE, noun. Used other than as an idiom: see dream,‎ house.
DREAM HOUSE, noun. One's ideal house or home.
DREAM HOUSES, noun. Plural of dream house
DREAM LIFE, noun. The world of the dream state of consciousness taken as a reality.
DREAM ON, verb. (intransitive) To continue dreaming.
DREAM POP, noun. A subgenre of alternative rock with ethereal textures and breathy vocals rather than hard riffs.
DREAM TEAM, noun. A team of players or members ideal for a given task; a team of the best players of a particular sport or members of a particular field.
DREAM TEAMS, noun. Plural of dream team
DREAM UP, verb. To have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, to invent something unreal.

Dictionary definition

DREAM, noun. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night".
DREAM, noun. Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality".
DREAM, noun. A cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business".
DREAM, noun. A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe".
DREAM, noun. A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream".
DREAM, noun. Someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream".
DREAM, verb. Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy.
DREAM, verb. Experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky