| dream | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. dream, dreaming | a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.; "I had a dream about you last night" |
| ~ sleeping | the state of being asleep. |
| ~ imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination | the ability to form mental images of things or events.; "he could still hear her in his imagination" |
| ~ nightmare | a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream. |
| ~ wet dream | an erotic dream (usually at night) accompanied by the (nocturnal) emission of semen. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. dream, dreaming | imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake.; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" |
| ~ imagination, imaginativeness, vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" |
| ~ air castle, castle in spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery | absentminded dreaming while awake. |
| ~ woolgathering | an idle indulgence in fantasy. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. ambition, aspiration, dream | a cherished desire.; "his ambition is to own his own business" |
| ~ desire | the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state. |
| ~ american dream | the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents did. |
| ~ emulation | ambition to equal or excel. |
| ~ nationalism | the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. dream, 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" |
| ~ fantasy, phantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality.; "a schoolgirl fantasy" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. dream | a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality.; "he went about his work as if in a dream" |
| ~ revery, reverie | an abstracted state of absorption. |
| n. (state) | 6. dream | someone or something wonderful.; "this dessert is a dream" |
| ~ flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection | the state of being without a flaw or defect. |
| v. (creation) | 7. daydream, dream, stargaze, woolgather | have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy. |
| ~ conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" |
| v. (perception) | 8. dream | experience while sleeping.; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene" |
| ~ catch some z's, kip, log z's, sleep, slumber | be asleep. |
| ~ perceive, comprehend | to become aware of through the senses.; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" |
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