dreamer

1. 1.

   someone who is dreaming

   Broadersleeper
2. 2.

   someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations

   Synonymsidealist

   Broadervisionary

   NarrowerDon Quixoteromantic
3. 3.

   a person who escapes into a world of fantasy

   Synonymsescapistwishful thinker

   Broaderdaydreamer

Other forms of dreamer

plural

dreamers·

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 dreamer

What does dreamer mean?

dreamer means "someone who is dreaming". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dreamer?

dreamer has 2 syllables: drea-mer. The stress falls on "drea". In IPA it is /ˈdɹimɚ/.

What is another word for dreamer?

Close synonyms include idealist, escapist, wishful thinker. 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 dreamer a common word?

dreamer 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.