dream

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a fantastic but vain hope, from fantasies induced by the opium pipe

   I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe.

2. 2
   noun

   a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality

   They went about their work as if in a dream.

3. 3
   noun

   a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

   I had a dream about you last night

4. 4
   noun

   imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

   The jester lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality.

5. 5
   noun

   someone or something wonderful

   this dessert is a dream

6. 6
   verb

   experience while sleeping

   They claim to never dream.

7. 7
   noun

   Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

   have a dream

8. 8
   noun

   A hope or wish.

   have a dream

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream From Middle English drem, from Old English drēam (“music, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, from earlier *draugmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrowgʰ-mos, from *dʰrewgʰ- (“to deceive, injure, damage”). The sense of "dream", though not attested in Old English, may still have been present (compare Old Saxon drōm (“bustle, revelry, jubilation", also "dream”)), and was undoubtedly reinforced later in Middle English by Old Norse draumr (“dre…