daydream

1. 1.

   absentminded dreaming while awake

   Synonymsreveriereverydaydreamingoneirismair castlecastle in the aircastle in Spain

   Broaderdream

Other forms of daydream

plural

daydreams·

past tense

daydreamed·

present participle

daydreaming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about daydream

What does daydream mean?

daydream means "have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in daydream?

daydream has 2 syllables: day-dream. The stress falls on "day". In IPA it is /ˈdeɪˌdɹim/.

What is another word for daydream?

Close synonyms include dream, woolgather, stargaze, moon, reverie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is daydream a common word?

daydream is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with daydream?

1 word rhymes with daydream. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.