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Dream

noun
1.
A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.  Synonym: dreaming.
2.
Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake.  Synonym: dreaming.
3.
A cherished desire.  Synonyms: ambition, aspiration.
4.
A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe).  Synonym: pipe dream.
5.
A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality.
6.
Someone or something wonderful.
verb
(past & past part. dreamt; pres. part. dreaming)
1.
Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy.  Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather.
2.
Experience while sleeping.  "He dreamt a strange scene"



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"Dream" Quotes from Famous Books



... sensitiveness but moderate means in days of sickness. It serves the part of our community which more than any other sets the pace of the civilization about us—the intelligent aspiring workers who may not have reached the goal of absolute financial independence. It creates the standard of which we may dream that it might become the ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various
... from mortal mind. Keep distinctly in 396:27 thought that man is the offspring of God, not of man; that man is spiritual, not material; that Soul is Spirit, outside of matter, never in it, never giving the body life 396:30 and sensation. It breaks the dream of disease to under- stand that sickness is formed by the human mind, not by matter ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... possible smiles, the twins came forward to greet the stranger. So appallingly alike were they that Mr. Fogo felt a ridiculous desire to run away, nor could help fancying himself the victim of a disordered dream. ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... dreamed of vengeance, but his dream was dispelled by the cold reception of the Sultan of Sulu, with whom they sought refuge at first and who gave them only a contemptuous and grudging hospitality. While Omar, nursed by Aissa, was recovering from his wounds, Babalatchi ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... himself stealing the Egg, when the chance came. He had had a dream about it. He dreamt that the Egg had been hatched and that out of it had come the most toothsome bird that a Fox had ever taken by the neck. He snapped his teeth in his sleep when he dreamt of it. The Fox told his youngsters about the bird ...
— The King of Ireland's Son • Padraic Colum


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