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Definition dream

Etymology

From Middle English dreme, from Old English dr?am (“joy, pleasure, gladness, delight, mirth, rejoicing, rapture, ecstasy, frenzy, music, musical instrument, harmony, melody, song, singing, jubilation, sound of music”), from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, from earlier *draugmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?rowg?-mos, from *d?rewg?- (“to deceive, injure, damage”). The sense of "dream", though not attested in Old English, may still have been present (compare Old Saxon dr?m (“bustle, revelry, jubilation", also "dream”)), and was undoubtedly reinforced later in Middle English by Old Norse draumr (“dream”), from same Proto-Germanic root. Cognate with Scots dreme (“dream”), North Frisian drom (“dream”), West Frisian dream (“dream”), Low German Droom, Dutch droom (“dream”), German Traum (“dream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drøm, Norwegian Nynorsk draum, Swedish dröm (“dream”), Icelandic draumur (“dream”). Related also to Old English dr?ag (“spectre, apparition”), Dutch bedrog (“deception, deceit”), German Trug (“deception, illusion”).

Noun

dream (plural dreams)

1. Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
2. A hope or wish.
3. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.

Verb

dream (third-person singular simple present dreams, present participle dreaming, simple past and past participle dreamed or dreamt)

1. (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
2. (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
3. (intransitive) To daydream.
4. (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
5. (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).

Adjective

dream (not comparable)

1. ideal; perfect

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