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DAY-DREAM

Specialty Definition: DAY-DREAM

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Literature

Day-dream A dream of the imagination when the eyes are awake. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Date "DAY-DREAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)


Usage Frequency: DAY-DREAM

"DAY-DREAM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DAY-DREAM" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DAY-DREAM

Language Translations for "DAY-DREAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

haihatella. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

álmodozás (daydream, musing, reverie, star-gazing), ábrándozás (daydream, dreaming, reverie, wishful thinking). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

melamun (attach, quixotic, vacant), lamunan, berkhayal (figure out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ay-dreamday

   

Portuguese

  

devaneio (abstractedness, dream, dreaminess, muse, reverie, wandering, wool-gathering), sonhar (dream, fancy). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự mơ mộng (brown study, reverie), sự mơ m ng mộng tưởng hão huyền. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: DAY-DREAM

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

somni, somnia, somnii, somnio, somniorum, somnium. (various references)

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Anagrams: DAY-DREAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: daydream.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-m-r-y"

-1 letter: daymare, dramedy.

-2 letters: drayed, dreamy, madder, yarded.

-3 letters: adder, armed, damar, dared, deary, deray, derma, drama, dread, dream, dryad, madre, mayed, rayed, readd, ready.

-4 letters: aery, area, army, dada, dame, dare, dead, dear, demy, derm, dram, dray, dyad, dyed, dyer, eddy, emyd, eyra, maar, made, mare, maya, mead, raya, read, ream, redd, yard, yare.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-m-r-y"
 

+1 letter: daydreams, daydreamt, readymade.

 

+2 letters: daydreamed, daydreamer, readymades.

 

+3 letters: daydreamers, daydreaming, hamadryades.

 

+4 letters: daydreamlike.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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