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say it: dreem
dream is a noun and verb meaning "a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep". It carries 8 recorded senses.
a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
“I had a dream about you last night”
imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
“he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality”
a cherished desire
“his ambition is to own his own business”
a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
“I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe”
a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
“he went about his work as if in a dream”
have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dream come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.