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Definition: Dream |
DreamNoun1. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night". 2. A cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business". 3. Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality". 4. A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe". 5. A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream". 6. Someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream". Verb1. Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy. 2. Experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dream" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Dream \Dream\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Dreamedor Dreamt; Dreaming.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | What a man may call a woman, though a Pill may have suggested it. Sweethearts are dreams because they seldom come true; wives, because they're often a night-mare, and both because they go by contraries. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Dream God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph (37:9-11), Gideon (Judg. 7), and Solomon (1 Kings 3:5). Other significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of Abimelech (Gen. 20:3-7), Pharaoh's chief butler and baker (40:5), Pharaoh (41:1-8), the Midianites (Judg. 7:13), Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:1; 4:10, 18), the wise men from the east (Matt. 2:12), and Pilate's wife (27:19). To Joseph "the Lord appeared in a dream," and gave him instructions regarding the infant Jesus (Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13, 19). In a vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before Paul and said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (Acts 16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Medicine | The life of the mind during sleep. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dream is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.Spoilers follow
He is given many names in the series, including Morpheus and Oneiros (within Wikipedia he is generally referred to as Morpheus). It is known that the Endless have many aspects, one of which is the personification active at any one time, and if one aspect dies, another replaces it. One particular aspect of Dream is the central character of the series, so referring to this aspect of Dream as Morpheus differentiates him from Dream as a whole. When the aspect known as Morpheus dies at the end of The Kindly Ones, the ninth collection of issues in the series, he is replaced by a new aspect, which used to be a child of Morpheus' aspect called Daniel. This is a tricky concept, encapsulated in the tenth and final collection, The Wake, when one character at Morpheus' wake, perplexed by the question of who exactly has died, is told by another that the purpose of the wake is to mourn "a point of view". The other Endless remain personified by the same aspect throughout the series, so they are simply referred to by the generic names.
Morpheus is usually presented as a tall, thin, pale-skinned and black haired man, who has been noted vaguely to resemble the lead singer of The Cure, Robert Smith.
When interacting with individual mortals, he appears in a guise appropriate to the mortal. For instance, in the story "Tales in the Sand" he interacts with the ancestors of a black aboriginal tribe, and is depicted as a black man called Kai'Ckul. He is once also depicted as a cat, in the issue "Dream of a Thousand Cats", and once as partway between a cat and a human, when talking to the feline goddess Bast. In the story "Men of Good Fortune", Dream is seen at different times in the last 500 years; his costume is a little more conventional than the modern Dream, but still with an air of eccentricity. In one popular sequence in the issue "The Parliament of Rooks", he and his elder sister Death are depicted as cartoon-style children.
He invariably wears black, except when wearing his formal costume, which involves purple and blue. He has a helmet, which he seems to wear on occasions of great importance; this is his sigil in the galleries of the other Endless. Morpheus lives in a castle within his realm. Both the castle and the rest of the realm are mutable and change often, at Morpheus' will; but parts of both the castle and the realm are maintained in constant form as a courtesy to its inhabitants. It is perhaps significant that Morpheus is the only one of the Endless known to populate his realm - many other characters live there, including Abel and Cain. He even creates (and in some cases recruits) servants to perform roles he could easily carry out himself, including the reorganisation of the castle and the guarding of its entrance. This perhaps points at an essential loneliness in Morpheus' character.
Dream is a noble, tragic hero, very much in the traditional style of heroes of Greek tragedy. He is sometimes slow, a little at sea when dealing with humour, occasionally insensitive and often self-obsessed. (As Mervyn Pumpkinhead remarks, when one of Morpheus' invariably disastrous romances ends, "He's gotta be the tragic figure standing out in the rain, mournin' the loss of his beloved. So down comes the rain, right on cue. In the meantime everybody gets dreams fulla existential angst and wakes up feeling like hell. And we all get wet.") On the other hand, he is consistently aware of his responsibilties, both those to other people and those that go with his (for want of a better word) territory, which makes him both dependable and fair-minded. He shares a close, reciprocal bond of dependence and trust with his elder sister, Death. He consistently strives for understanding, most particularly of himself and of the other Endless, but is ultimately defeated by his most tragic flaw, his inability to consciously change himself and to recognise and accept the change that inevitably occurs at an unconscious level. As Lucien remarks in The Wake when asked (by Matthew, the raven) "Why did it happen? Why did he let it happen?", "Charitably...I think...sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change."
See also Characters in The Sandman and Sandman (comics).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dream (Sandman)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dreaming is an imaginative process of the mind that occurs during REM in sleep. Forms of dream include the frightening or upsetting nightmare and erotic dreams with sexual images and nocturnal emission.
Dreams are, according to some psychologists (most famously, Sigmund Freud), rich in symbolism and offer a window into the unconscious mind. Interpretation of dreams is a regular part of psychoanalysis. It is said that one may control the course and content of dreams by a technique called lucid dreaming. However, this could distract one from the dream-matter provided by the unconscious mind.
Most mainstream academic psychologists do not believe that dreams have a coherent meaning. Carl Jung's view of dreams was more precise than this: that dreams have meanings, but their meanings are idiosyncratic, complicated, and not susceptible to more than vague, uncertain, and sometimes superficial interpretations. In particular, interpretation needs to be based on the thoughts of the individual dreamer, and not on any formula.
The art of interpreting dreams from a proto-pyschological point of view is known as oneiromancy. The usage of this now obselete word occurs at the conclusion of Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 Discourse The Garden of Cyrus-
A dream is also a long-term hope, e.g. in I have a dream. In advertising lotteries it is pointed out that one's dream(s) can come true.
- Besides Hippocrates hath spoken so little, and the Oneirocritical Masters have left such frigid interpretations from plants that there is little encouragement to dream of Paradise itself.
The term is also used to ridicule someone who has hopes for something unlikely, or mistakenly believes something. This usage is especially associated with the term "pipe dream" which literally refers to a fantasy induced by opium.
See also Hallucination
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DREAM | English | A road transport feasibility study on the monitoring of driver status | Computing, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DreamSynonyms: ambition (n), aspiration (n), dreaming (n), pipe dream (n), daydream (v), stargaze (v), woolgather (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Error | Trip, stumble; lose oneself; (uncertainty); go astray; fail; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear; (mismanage); put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); dream; (imagine). |
Heresy; (heterodoxy); hallucination; (insanity); false light; (fallacy of vision); dream; (fancy); fable; (untruth); bias; (misjudgment); misleading; Verb: | |
Imagination | Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name". |
Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. | |
Inactivity | Sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus; Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology. |
Inattention | Abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie. |
Thought | Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow. |
Unsubstantiality | Shadow; phantom;(fallacy of vision); dream; (imagination); ignis fatuus; (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of "; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision "; mockery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dream |
| English words defined with "dream": Adreamed, Areed ♦ by chance ♦ confused ♦ disconnected, disjointed, disordered, dreaming, dreamlike, Dreamt ♦ garbled ♦ happen ♦ illogical, incubus ♦ latent content ♦ material, materialise, materialize, Met, Mete, Mette ♦ nightmare, nocturnal emission ♦ pavor nocturnus, perchance, Phantasm, phantasmagoria, pipe dream, prevision ♦ quixotic ♦ real, romantic ♦ scattered, sleep terror disorder, substantial, surreal, Sweven ♦ To tell tale of, Tormenting ♦ unconnected, undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt, undreamt of, unimagined ♦ wet dream, wild-eyed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dream": Dream Authorship. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dream": somnolent. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dream" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Frisian (daydream, dream), Manx (inhabitants, natives), Scottish (a tribe, clan, family, folk, race, tribe). |
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Screenplays | Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) One day I'll fly away leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) I'm saying I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over and the insect is awake (The Fly; writing credit: David Cronenberg and Charles Edward Pogue.) I mean I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this dream place (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) Her dream had come true (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) | |
Lyrics | Voila! An American Dream. (American Dream; performing artist: The Dirt Band) And this could be the story in am dream (Story in a Dream; performing artist: Train) To you, ah yeah and your other crew, if it is a dream, boom see boom (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) My every wish and every dream (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees) The sweetest dream will never do (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH) | |
Clever | Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Dream for Christmas (1973) Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream (1972) Deadly Dream (1971) The Conquered Dream (1971) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1971) | |
Song Titles | DREAM WEAVER (performing artist: Gary Wright ) #9 Dream (performing artist: John Lennon) DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME (performing artist: Mama Cass ) Dream A Little Dream Of Me (performing artist: The Mamas And The Papas) An Amercan Dream (performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fisherman's dream - sunset, moonrise, Mt. Rainier, and the salmon were running. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Naturalist's dream of mermaids collecting in the deep. In: "The Voyage of H. M. S. CHALLENGER A Summary....", Part I, p. xii. Library Call Number Q115.C4 1880 summary pt. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Live the Dream. : Say no to alcohol and drug abuse. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The Dream / May H. Lesser. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | A. Dream caused by the perusal of Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe's popular work Uncle Tom's Cabin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Polk's dream. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Uncle Sam's Christmas dream. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The American dream. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The President's dream of a successful hunt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Great White Father's day dream. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dream State" by Toby Cummings Commentary: "A shot of clouds I took while in a car on the highway. I decided to also give this photo a nice dreamy soft focus. And I want to apologize for these three new pictures that I'm uploading, because they are only 640 X 480... I forgot to reset my camera a" | "Dream girl" by Matty And Sharon Commentary: "Little girl at the race booth." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake. |
| They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. | |
Bulwer | Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. |
Homer | A dream, too, is from Zeus. |
J. August Strindberg | I dream, therefore I exist. |
John Bunyan | So I awoke, and behold it was a dream. |
Matthew Arnold | Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. |
Novalis | We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. |
Wendell Phillips | Christianity is a battle not a dream. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They still dream of experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | I have a dream today. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1908) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I would not dream of applying the term to any individual |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Whatever this dream may be, the story of that night would be incomplete if we should omit it. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream! |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | In a dream he fell asleep |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | What was your dream, my lord |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The eyes flicked closed again and Ma squirmed under her dream. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I pinched my arms and sides to awake myself, hoping I might be in a dream. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | First I take an axe and pail and go in search of water, if that be not a dream. |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Scientists do not know much about how or why we dream. (references) | |
A person dreaming about a ball game, for example, may run headlong into furniture or blindly strike someone sleeping nearby while trying to catch a ball in the dream. (references) | ||
Business | As recently as in 1994, such services were still a distant dream in Ukraine. (references) | |
For a working class American, a trip abroad typically is a once-in-a-lifetime dream. (references) | ||
All of these problems must be solved in order for the dream of a Chinese family car to become a reality. (references) | ||
Economic History | Panama | Modern Panamanian history has been shaped by its transisthmian canal, which had been a dream since the beginning of Spanish colonization. (references) |
Egypt | Dream TV 1 and 2 produce cultural programming, broadcast contemporary video clips and films featuring Arab and international actors, as well as soap operas; another private station focuses on business and general news. (references) | |
Ukraine | Rules governing privatization will need to be applied more consistently and with more transparency if Ukraine is to realize its dream of using foreign direct investment to privatize and revitalize former state enterprises. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" |
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Dennis Quaid | Three months before that, he was a teacher teaching in high school science in this little town in west Texas, in May. And then in September, he's fulfilling his lifelong dream of putting them out in a big league park. |
Linda Fairstein | Long before I went to law school, and I started by doing a nonfiction book about the reforms and the work we had done, but this was a dream I'd had. And so, I started doing the fiction. This is the fifth book in the series. |
Madonna | When I was a teenager I wanted to be a dancer. I wanted to move to New York and be a dancer. That was my goal, and that was my dream. It was pretty small. |
Priscilla Presley | The Dream Foundation is equivalent to the Make-A-Wish foundation for children, only this is for terminally ill adults. |
Rudy Giuliani | I don't know. I mean, I guess it's a dream that all of us who love baseball have of being baseball commissioner. |
Sylvia Browne | Every dream has a meaning. Every dream has a meaning. Even the ones that are spotty and, you know, you're here and you jump here and you do this and you're, you know, you're frantic. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We do not dismiss disarmament as merely an idle dream. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our own freedom and growth have never been the final goal of the American dream. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Two centuries ago our Nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of this Nation still awaits its consummation. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | As we work to make the American Dream real for all, we must also look to the condition of America's families. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Martin Luther King's dream was the American Dream. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | People around the world who search for a better life still dream of working and living in the United States of America. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Dream" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.01% of the time. "Dream" is used about 4,266 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) | 84.01% | 3,584 | 2,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.8% | 503 | 11,997 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.93% | 168 | 24,050 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.16% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,266 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dream": a bad dream ♦ a perfect dream ♦ american dream ♦ BioSonic Mantric Dream Repatterning ♦ cause to dream ♦ day dream ♦ distant dream ♦ dream about ♦ dream about smth. ♦ dream away ♦ dream book ♦ Dream Changing ♦ dream job ♦ dream of ♦ dream of Alnashar ♦ dream of the future ♦ dream one's time away ♦ dream reader ♦ dream up ♦ dream world ♦ golden dream ♦ have a dream about ♦ i had a dream that ♦ Jungian dream interpretation ♦ like a dream ♦ night dream ♦ not a dream ♦ pass away like a dream ♦ pipe dream ♦ to dream ♦ to dream away ♦ to dream out ♦ to dream through ♦ unrealized dream ♦ waking dream ♦ waking dream state ♦ wet dream. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dream": dream-activity, dream-bat, dream-blowing, dream-book, dream-books, dream-boy, dream-brain, dream-chamber, dream-coat, dream-come-true, dream-consciousness, dream-corner, dream-country, dream-depths, dream-dream-dream, dream-dust, dream-filled, dream-find, dream-fulfilling, dream-girl, dream-hole, dream-image, dream-imagery, dream-interpretation, dream-interpretations, dream-kiss, dream-life, dream-like, dream-logic, dream-lover, dream-machine, Dream-machines, dream-man, dream-manuals, dream-map, dream-metaphor, dream-packed, dream-past, dream-people, dream-picture, dream-poem, dream-poems, dream-self, dream-state, Dream-swain, dream-tangled, dream-team, dream-telepathy, dream-time, dream-topics, dream-touch, dream-town, dream-troubled, dream-vision, dream-walking, dream-way, dream-woman, dream-work, dream-world, dream-wracked. | |
Ending with "dream": day-dream, half-dream, pipe-dream, terror-dream. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dream | 13,055 | california dream | 481 |
dream interpretation | 6,252 | dream house | 463 |
dream dictionary | 5,137 | dream girl | 461 |
dream weaver | 4,105 | wet dream | 447 |
sleazy dream | 3,192 | free dream interpretation | 397 |
dream meaning | 2,451 | dream weaver template free | 383 |
street dream | 1,951 | dream weaver tutorial | 373 |
dream catcher | 1,801 | all your dream lyrics | 355 |
sweet dream | 1,676 | dream symbol | 349 |
dream theater | 1,620 | macromedia dream weaver | 331 |
dream home | 1,023 | club dream night | 327 |
american dream | 1,004 | common dream | 326 |
i dream of jeannie | 1,001 | aunt dream pollys | 322 |
requiem for a dream | 765 | i have a dream | 313 |
field of dream | 736 | interpreting dream | 277 |
midsummer night dream | 690 | dream doll | 270 |
what dream mean | 681 | dream vacation | 260 |
dream weaver mx | 598 | dream team | 257 |
dream weaver template | 551 | dream car | 255 |
dream horse | 532 | i dream of jeanie | 254 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dream"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ëndërroj (daydream), ëndërr (fancy). (various references) | |
Arabic | منام, حلم (clemency, forbearance, indulgence, longanimity, overindulgence, patience, tolerance, toleration), رؤيا (vision), شىء رائع الجمال. (various references) | |
Aymara | samcaña (to dream). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | paapáó'kaan (to dream). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сънувам, съновидение, сън (bye bye, doss, kip, repose, sleep), халюцинация (fantasy, hallucination, illusion), фантазирам, фантазия (daydream, fairy tale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, invention, phantasy), мечтая (daydream), мечта (cloud-castle, daydream), блян (daydream, reverie), представям си (conceive, envisage, fancy, figure to oneself, image, imagine, picture to oneself, represent to oneself, see, suppose, think), илюзия (deception, delusion, fantasy, glamor, glamour, illusion, maya, phantasm, phantasy, phantom, vapor, vapour), идеал (idea, ideal, it). (various references) | |
Chinese | 做夢 (have a dream), 梦想, 夢寐 (sleep). (various references) | |
Cornish | hünrosa (to dream). (various references) | |
Czech | snít (daydream), sen. (various references) | |
Danish | drømme. (various references) | |
Dutch | dromen (daydream, fancy). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sonĝo, sonĝi, revo (daydream), revi (daydream, fancy). (various references) | |
Faeroese | droyma (daydream, fancy), dreymur. (various references) | |
Farsi | خواب دیدن , خواب (Asleep, Nap, Sleep), رویادیدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | uni (sleep), uneksia (daydream, fancy). (various references) | |
French | rêve, songer, songe, rêver. (various references) | |
Frisian | dreame (daydream, fancy), dream (daydream). (various references) | |
German | Traum (daydream, picture, reverie), träumen (daydream, dreamed, fancy, moon about, moon around, to dream). (various references) | |
Greek | όνειρο, ονειρεύομαι (dream up, to dream). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ëndërroj, ëndërr. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חלום (vision). (various references) | |
Hungarian | álom (doss, sleep), vágyálom (pipe dream, pipedream, wishful thinking), álmodik (dreamt, have a dream, to dream), ábránd (fancy, fantasia, fantasy, unreality). (various references) | |
Icelandic | draumur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mimpi, berangan-angan (fantasize, have ideals), angan-angan (delusion, fantasy, notion, thought). (various references) | |
Irish | aisling (vision; dream). (various references) | |
Italian | sogno, sognare (daydream). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 幻 (illusion, phantom, vision), 夢想 (reverie, vision), 夢. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドリーム , ねがいごと (one's desire, prayer, wish), まぼろし (illusion, phantom, vision), むそう (a blank mind, matchless, peerless, reverie, unparalleled, vision), ゆめ. (various references) | |
Korean | 꿈. (various references) | |
Malay | mimpi, impian, bermimpi. (various references) | |
Manx | slamm, dreamal, brann, ashlish (apocalypse, illusion, make-believe, revelation, vision). (various references) | |
Maya | wayakpah (to dream). (various references) | |
Norwegian | drøm. (various references) | |
Papiamen | soño, soña. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamdray.(various references) | |
Polish | sen, marzyć (daydream, fancy), marzenie (daydream), śnić. (various references) | |
Portuguese | sonho (doss, fried cake, gem, reverie, shut-eye, sinker), sonhar (day-dream, fancy), fantasiar (fable, fancy, fantasize, kid, romance). (various references) | |
Romanian | visa (daydream, fancy). (various references) | |
Romansch | siemiar (to dream). (various references) | |
Romany | soonòdikhav (to dream). (various references) | |
Russian | сон (doss, dreamland, dreamworld, rest, shut eye, shuteye, shut-eye, sleep, slumber), сновидение, сниться, фантазировать (fantasize, give rein to one's imagination, give reins to one's imagination), видеть сны, видение (aparation, apparation, apparition, vision), мечтать мечта (daydream), мечта, думать (deem, think, trow, ween). (various references) | |
Scottish | bruadair, aisling (a vision, vision). (various references) | |
Sepedi | lora (to dream). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sanjati, sanjariti (daydream, muse), sanjarenje (daydream, dreaming, reverie), san (sleep), maštarija (pipe dream, vision). (various references) | |
Shona | -rota (to dream). (various references) | |
Sicilian | sunnari (to dream). (various references) | |
Spanish | soñar (doze, go court, like, look forward to, romance, want), sueño (delusion, disappointment, eagerness, exaltation, kip, love, shut eye, sleep, sleeping, slumber, vision). (various references) | |
Sranan | dren. (various references) | |
Swahili | ndoto. (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-bhudza (to dream). (various references) | |
Swedish | dröm (illusion), drömma (muse). (various references) | |
Thai | ฝัน, ความฝัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | düş (delusion, fantasy, fiction, pink elephant, reverie), rüyasında görmek, rüya gibi şey, rüya görmek, rüya görme, rüya, nefis şey (a perfect dream, beautiful thing), ideal (aim, apotheosis, dreamboat, goal, ideal, mission, optimal, optimum, pattern, soaring, utopian), hayal kurmak (day dream, fancy, imagine, throw one's cap over the windmill), hayal görmek, hayal etmek (imagine, shadow), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, vision, waking dream), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, drift, function, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, terminus, turn, use, view, wherefore, will). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dьяюьrgemek, dьяю, uky (sleep), arzuw (wish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сон (doss, dreamland, shut eye, sleep, sleeping, slumber), видіння, мріяти (drowse, fantasize), мрія (ambition, fancy, reverie, vow), бачити сон, блаженство (beatitude, blessedness, bliss, rapt), думати (deem, have in mind, imagine, presume, ratiocinate, think). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự mơ màng (dreamt, musing, reverie), sự mộng tưởng điều mơ tưởng (dreamt), giấc mơ (dreamt), giấc mộng sự mơ mộng (dreamt), điều mơ ước (dreamt), điều kỳ ảo như trong giấc mơ (dreamt). (various references) | |
Welsh | breuddwydio, breuddwyd. (various references) | |
Yucatec | wayak', naay. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ma-mu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | somni, somnia, somniabunt, somniantes, somniat, somniator, somniatores, somniatoris, somniavi, somnii, somnio, somniorum, somnium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai enupniasqh to deuteron kai idou epta stacueV anebainon en puqmeni eni eklektoi kai kaloi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Rursum dormivit et vidit alterum somnium septem spicae pullulabant in culmo uno plenae atque formonsae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Slepte eftsones, and sawy another sweuen; seuene eerys buriounde in o stalk and ful fayr, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he slepte agayne and dreamed the second tyme that .vij. eares of corne grewe apon one stalke rancke and goodly. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he slept and dreamed the second time: and behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug mikatulog siya pag-usab, ug nagdamgo siya sa ikaduha; ug, ania karon, may pito ka uhay nga puno ug maanindot mibuswak kini sa usa lamang ka uhot. |
| Croatian | Opet zaspi te usnu drugi san: sedam punih i jedrih klasova izraste na jednoj stabljici. |
| Danish | Men han sov ind og havde en Drøm og så syv tykke og gode Aks skyde frem på et og samme Strå; |
| Dutch | Daarna sliep hij en droomde andermaal; en ziet, zeven aren rezen op, in een halm, vet en goed. |
| Finnish | Mutta hän nukkui uudestaan ja näki toisen kerran unta: seitsemän paksua ja kaunista tähkäpäätä kasvoi samassa oljessa. |
| French | Il se rendormit, et il eut un second songe. Voici, sept épis gras et beaux montèrent sur une même tige. |
| German | Und er schlief wieder ein, und ihn träumte abermals, und er sah, daß sieben Ähren wuchsen an einem Halm, voll und dick. |
| Hungarian | És elaluvék és másodszor is álmot láta, és ímé hét gabonafej nevekedik vala egy száron, mind teljes és szép. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian ia tertidur dan bermimpi lagi. Dalam mimpinya ia melihat tujuh bulir gandum yang berisi dan masak-masak tumbuh pada satu tangkai. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tertidurlah pula Firaun, lalu bermimpilah ia pada kedua kalinya. Heran, maka terbitlah tujuh mayang gandum dari pada sebatang yang subur lagi baik. |
| Maori | A ka parangia ano ia, na, ko te rua o ana moe: na, ko te putanga ake o nga puku witi e whitu, kotahi ano hoki te kakau, he mea whai kiko, he pai. |
| Norwegian | Så sovnet han igjen og drømte annen gang, og se, syv aks, frodige og gode, vokste op på ett strå. |
| Portuguese | Depois dormiu e tornou a sonhar; e eis que brotavam dum mesmo pé sete espigas cheias e boas. |
| Rumanian | A adormit din nou, wi a visat un al doilea vis. Se fqcea cq wapte spice de grku grase wi frumoase au crescut pe acelaw pai. |
| Russian | Й ЪБУОХМ ПРСФШ, Й УОЙМПУШ ЕНХ Ч ДТХЗПК ТБЪ: ЧПФ, ОБ ПДОПН УФЕВМЕ РПДОСМПУШ УЕНШ ЛПМПУШЕЧ ФХЮОЩИ Й ИПТПЫЙИ; |
| Swedish | Men han somnade åter in och såg då i drömmen sju ax, frodiga och vackra, växa på samma strå. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dream": dreamed, dreamer, dreamers, dreamful, dreamfully, dreamfulness, dreamfulnesses, dreamier, dreamiest, dreamily, dreaminess, dreaminesses, dreaming, dreamland, dreamlands, dreamless, dreamlessly, dreamlessness, dreamlessnesses, dreamlike, dreams, dreamt, dreamtime, dreamtimes, dreamworld, dreamworlds, dreamy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dream": daydream, outdream, redream. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dream": daydreamed, daydreamer, daydreamers, daydreaming, daydreamlike, daydreams, daydreamt, outdreamed, outdreaming, outdreams, outdreamt, redreamed, redreaming, redreams, redreamt, undreamed, undreamt. (additional references) | |
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"Dream" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darea, darem, deam, dera, Derab, deraim, Deran, Derham, derim, derm, derom, deron, Djemaa, dorea, draak, drae, draee, drame, Dramm, drea, dreame, drean, dreap, dreaw, dreay, dreeb, dreek, dreem, dreema, dreen, Drem, drema, dreo, Dreu, dria, drinan, driom, droan, droma, druama, druim, druma, Dryham, fream, gream, tream. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dream" (pronounced drē"m) |
| 3 | -r ē" m | bream, ream, cream, creme, extreme, scream, stream, supreme, upstream. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: armed, derma, madre. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-r" | |
-1 letter: dame, dare, dear, derm, dram, made, mare, mead, read, ream. | |
-2 letters: are, arm, dam, ear, era, mad, mae, mar, med, rad, ram, red, rem. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, am, ar, de, ed, em, er, ma, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-r" | |
+1 letter: admire, dammer, damner, damper, demark, dermal, dermas, dreams, dreamt, dreamy, farmed, framed, harmed, madder, madres, marked, marled, marred, marted, medlar, radome, rammed, ramped, reamed, remade, remand, remuda, roamed, warmed. | |
+2 letters: admired, admirer, admires, alarmed, amender, amerced, armored, breamed, caromed, charmed, comrade, crammed, cramped, creamed, damager, dammers, damners, dampers, daymare, defamer, demarks, dramedy, drammed, draymen, dreamed, dreamer, duramen, eardrum, earldom, emerald, herdman, inarmed, jemadar, jemidar, madders, madeira, madrone, majored, mandrel, manured, marbled, marched, married, matured, maunder, meander, medlars, mermaid, midyear, misread, premade, racemed, radomes, rambled, readmit, rearmed, redream, reedman, remands, remated, remudas, renamed, rumbaed, sedarim, sidearm, smarted, smeared, swarmed, trammed, tramped, unarmed, yardmen. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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