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Meaning dream meaning

What does dream mean?
Definitions in simple English

dream Noun

— Dreams are the images and things you see when you are sleeping. In my dream I had forgotten the baby in a drawer. I had a dream that I was in a magical world with fairies and evil witches. — A dream is something you wish for or hope will happen. The company is succeeding beyond anyone's wildest dreams. He decided to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a police officer.

dream Verb

— If you dream about something, you wish for it. She dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. If we go to sleep, we'll dream that we're awake.

dream

— noun (= dreaming) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep I had a dream about you last night — verb (= daydream) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy — verb experience while sleeping She claims to never dream He dreamt a strange scene — noun (= dreaming) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality — noun (= ambition) a cherished desire his ambition is to own his own business — noun (= pipe dream) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe — noun a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality he went about his work as if in a dream — noun someone or something wonderful this dessert is a dream

Synonyms dream synonyms

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dream English » English

vision imagine daydream wish fancy desire fantasize ambition aspiration sleep reverie dreaming have a dream thought imagination illusion hope fantasy woolgathering woolgather think stargaze plan pipe dream muse intention fantasise yearning moon meditate imagining ideal wishing wishful thinking want waking dream visualize visionary trance to be think to oneself surprised stupid sopor slumber see visions see in a dream see ruminate realization

Topics dream topics

What do people use dream to talk about?
Language and thought Think Mind

Imagine
Daily life Sleep

Dream
Grammar General words Do

Create
Language and thought Think Expect

Hope

Conjugation dream conjugation

How do you conjugate dream?

dream · verb

Examples dream examples

How do I use dream in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I hope my dream will come true.
Mary's dream of going abroad finally became a reality.
The dream was a mystery to me.
My dream is to become a pilot.
I dreamed a strange dream.
Life is not an empty dream.
Mary used to dream about Tom.
Mary used to dream about getting married.
Is it stranger to dream about a bow or about a rainbow?
I used to dream of him.
I dreamt a strange dream.
It's like a bad dream.
It's a dream come true.
He didn't even dream about that.
How could I be a robot? Robots don't dream.
I have a dream.
You make me dream.
It won't be long before your dream comes true.
The day is sure to come when your dream will come true.
Never did I dream of meeting you here.
In the near future, space travel will no longer be just a dream.
A voyage to the moon in a spaceship is no longer a dream.
If you are to realize your dream, you must work harder.
Mayuko dreamed a strange dream.
Mayuko's dream came true.
Do you ever dream about flying through the sky?
Your dream will come true some day.
The day will surely come when your dream will come true.
The time will come when your dream will come true.

Movie subtitles

The Emperor YongIe had died, and with him died the dream of Chinese overseas expansion.
IAN:.and he's having a dream.
I once told a lie when I was 12 and I had a dream that I went to Hell!
Look, we've all had the Spooky Hell Dream, people.
The path of fire leads thee To Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
Welcome back to Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
You are having A Spooky Mormon Hell Dream now!
And now my soul hath just been thrown Back into Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
No escape from Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
In this Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
I hate this Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
Welcome, welcome to Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
You are never waking up from Spooky Mormon Hell Dream!
They wage wars on us, cut our settlers' throats, burn our farms, dream of throwing us in the sea.
Did you forget our dream of uniting the East and the West?
My old dream had finally come true!
Look, I didn't go to Paris 'cause our dream was to open a restaurant right here, man.
This place, the way it is, it's like a. Like a tomb of Rie's dream that can never come true.
Living the dream.
Not long afterwards, Elsalill had a peculiar dream. She thought she saw her dead foster sister standing before her.
The next day, the dream lingered and would not fade and she was irresistibly drawn to the places her foster sister had taken her in the dream.
I don't understand: it is like a dream and I fear.
High up in the air is Apelone's dream castle, and there the Devil will fulfill all her secret wishes.
Mr. West's dream finally came true.
And when the dream came, it seemed the whole room was filled with mist.
Dear, it was only a dream.
I feel like I walked into some kind of a dream or a nightmare, and nobody-- nobody has any answers.
So, I used your Armenian tracking device to follow Lourdes, and it worked like a dream.
Dr. Dream Ghost Akopian.
And I'm so sorry if I did anything to delay that dream.
She is a dream mistress.
Sometimes I feel as if my love was only a dream.
It's a lovely dream, Bob.
I wouldn't dream of taking up any more of your time.
I didn't dream it was this late.
My dream!
The letters of scholars, according to ancient traditions, do not allow us to doubt the reality of that dream.
OH, I WOULDN'T DREAM OF INTERFERING WITH YOUR DANCING.
We wouldn't dream of being the cause of that.

News and current affairs

The UN, like the dream of European unity, was also part of the 1945 consensus.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs.
The European dream is in crisis.
To many, myself included, NATO's enlargement to take in, among others, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- which were once Soviet republics -- is an impossible dream come true.
In short, Germany during the World Cup is reminiscent of a Shakespearean midsummer night's dream, with a touch of Woodstock to boot.
It is a form of Cold War nostalgia - a dream of returning to a time when much of the globe was recovering from a ruinous world war and living in fear of communism.
Most commentators appear to think that Bush's latest prescription - a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad - will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.
In the 1950's, most of Europe considered the idea of a Union with a single Parliament a pipe dream.
It is as if in death, Arafat has given his people a chance to achieve what he could not achieve in life -the dream of an independent democratic Palestinian state.
Latin Americans and North Americans dream of creating a free-trade zone.
These countries' massive combined bank and government debt - the distinction everywhere in Europe has become blurred - makes rapid sustained growth a dream.
That would be a huge step in the right direction, but we should not give up the dream of a universal digital public library.
In fact, Europe's much-vaunted social model is more a dream than a reality, the dream of a cozy world in which a benevolent state looks after us.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs. But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.
Most French people could only dream of an exotic wedding in India.
Sarkozy could make that dream come true.
For example, David Beckham and his ex-pop-star wife Victoria, live out their own dream of royalty, aping some of its gaudiest aspects.
In Colombia's south - where the heavy presence of illegal armed groups makes social peace a distant dream - I went to visit a secondary school, as part of a needs assessment.
Their dream careers were: lawyer, criminal investigator, forensic physician, and soldier.
Those who see him as successful have the 1960's and 1970's as their dream fantasy.
Whatever each family's experience, the result has been a child reaching a level of education of which many people can only dream.
For the individual, Argentina embodied the dream that one's children would live better - and their children even better.

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