dream

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A series of images and feelings that happen in your mind while you sleep.

   I had a strange dream about flying last night.

2. 2
   noun

   Something you very much hope to do, have, or be one day.

   Her dream is to become a doctor.

3. 3
   verb

   To experience images and stories in your mind while you sleep.

   I often dream about my childhood home.

4. 4
   verb

   To imagine or hope for something you want very much.

   She dreams of travelling around the world.

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Simplified etymology

Dream comes from a Germanic root also represented by Dutch droom and German Traum, though the modern sense is not recorded in English until the Middle Ages and may have entered from early Scandinavian. Old English had a word dream meaning “joy” or “music,” which may be related, but the connection is uncertain.

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…

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