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Definitions: Daydream |
DaydreamNoun1. Absent-minded dreaming while awake. Verb1. Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy. 2. Have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "daydream" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Synonyms: DaydreamSynonyms: air castle (n), castle in Spain (n), castle in the air (n), daydreaming (n), oneirism (n), reverie (n), revery (n), dream (v), moon (v), stargaze (v), woolgather (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Daydream |
| English words defined with "daydream": dream ♦ stargaze ♦ woolgather. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong ("Superstition"; performing artist: Stevie Wonder) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Rosewood Daydream (1970) Little Dolly Daydream (1938) | |
Song Titles | Daydream (performing artist: The Lovin' Spoonful) Daydream Believer (performing artist: The Monkees) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | When he had written this title and drawn an ornamental line underneath he fell into a daydream and began to draw diagrams on the cover of the book. |
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| "Daydream" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.00% of the time. "Daydream" is used about 50 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 58% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 28% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
daydream | 107 |
daydream sunshine | 49 |
daydream island | 37 |
daydream believer | 34 |
daydream girl | 25 |
daydream philadelphia | 18 |
daydream graphic | 11 |
mariah carey daydream | 8 |
day daydream | 8 |
candid daydream | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "daydream"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fantazi (dream, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, idea, imagination, make believe, phantasy), ëndrra me sy të hapur, ëndërroj (dream). (various references) | |
Arabic | إستغرق في أحلام اليقظة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фантазия (dream, fairy tale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, invention, phantasy), мечтая (dream), мечта (cloud-castle, dream), блян (dream, reverie). (various references) | |
Chinese | 作白日梦 (daydreaming), 夢話 (to talk in one's sleep). (various references) | |
Czech | denní snìní, snít (dream), snìní s otevřenýma oèima, fantazírovat (be delirious), fantazírování, blouznit (be delirious, enthuse, ramble, rave, wander). (various references) | |
Dutch | dromen (dream, fancy). (various references) | |
Esperanto | revo (dream), revi (dream, fancy). (various references) | |
Faeroese | droyma (dream, fancy). (various references) | |
Farsi | خیال باطل کردن , خیال باطل , افکارپوچ . (various references) | |
Finnish | uneksia (dream, fancy). (various references) | |
French | songer. (various references) | |
Frisian | dreame (dream, fancy), dream (dream). (various references) | |
German | traum (dream, picture, reverie), träumen (dream, dreamed, fancy, moon about, moon around, to dream). (various references) | |
Greek | ονειροπόληση (reverie), ονειροπολώ (day dream, dream away). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחלום ב"קיץ, ל"זות (rave), חלום ב"קיץ (reverie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | álmodozás (day-dream, musing, reverie, star-gazing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengelamun (muse). (various references) | |
Italian | sognare (dream), fantasticare (dream up, fancy, imagine, lionize, romanticize), fantasia (fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, phantasy), almanaccare (build castles in the air, dream, fantasize). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 白昼夢 (waking dream). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くうそう (fancy, fantasy, noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces, vision), はくじつむ, はくちゅうむ (waking dream). (various references) | |
Manx | dreamal 'sy laa, dreamal laa (daydreaming), ashlish laa, ashlins laa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aydreamday.(various references) | |
Polish | marzyć, marzenie (dream). (various references) | |
Romanian | visa (dream, fancy). (various references) | |
Russian | грезы (imaginings), грезить наяву, мечты (cloud-castle, reverie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sanjariti (dream, muse), sanjarenje (dream, dreaming, reverie). (various references) | |
Spanish | ensueño (day dream, dream, fantasy, phantasy, reverie). (various references) | |
Swedish | dagdröm (reverie). (various references) | |
Turkish | hayâl kurmak, hayâl. (various references) | |
Welsh | hel meddyliau. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "daydream": daydreamed, daydreamer, daydreamers, daydreaming, daydreamlike, daydreams, daydreamt. (additional references) | |
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"Daydream" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dabydeen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "daydream" (pronounced dā"drē'm) |
| 3 | -r ē' m | bireme, bloodstream, downstream, mainstream, midstream, sidestream. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| 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, year. | |
-5 letters: add, ama, are, arm, aye, dad, dam, day, dey, dry, dye, ear, era, mad, mae, mar, may, med, rad, ram, ray, red, rem, rya, rye, yam, yar, yea. | |
| 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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 79 64 72 65 61 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -.--. -.. .-. . .- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01111001 01100100 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a y d r e a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0079 0064 0072 0065 0061 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3867917084716779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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