dream noun [C] (SLEEP)
- Jane's hand on my shoulder woke me from a bad dream.
- I was in the middle of an amazing dream when the alarm went off.
- Some people believe that dreams reveal important things about your subconscious thoughts.
- I had a weird dream about you last night.
- If I eat a lot of cheese in the evening, I have amazing dreams.
dream noun [C] (HOPE)
Synonyms
intent formal or specialized
- aimOur aim in protesting is to raise awareness of the unfairness of the system.
- goalMy goal in life has always been to be financially independent.
- objectiveOne of my objectives for this year is to increase sales.
- targetIf you meet your sales targets you will receive a generous bonus.
- dreamWhen I was growing up my dream was to perform in front of millions of people.
- hopeMy hope is that there will be some kind of positive outcome to this process.
- Their dream to bring computers and ordinary people together was nothing less than revolutionary.
- To win the Olympic gold medal was the realization of his life's dream.
- Ever since she was a child her dream has been to teach school.
- It was his boyhood dream to become a film director.
- After all the problems I'd had getting pregnant, Oliver's birth was a dream come true.
- appealingly
- boosterish
- boosterism
- bright spot
- cautious
- fancy
- hopeful
- hopefully
- hopefulness
- ill
- it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good) idiom
- la-la land
- over-optimistic
- over-optimistically
- pin your hopes on something/someone idiom
- pious
- pipe dream
- please God idiom
- positively
- wing
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dream
adjective
uk
/driːm/ us
/driːm/dream
verb
uk
/driːm/ us
/driːm/ dreamed or dreamt | dreamed or dreamtdream verb (SLEEP)
A2 [ I or T ]
dream about What did you dream about last night?
dream of I often dream of flying.
[ + that ] I dreamed (that) I was having a baby.
[ I or T ] mainly UK
- She dreamed she saw someone standing at the foot of her bed.
- There's an old superstition that young girls going to bed on this night dream of their future husbands.
- Last night I dreamed that you were living in my kitchen - it was weird!
- I couldn't believe what I was seeing - I thought I must be dreaming.
- If you're dreaming that you're about to die, you always wake up, don't you?
- be hearing/imagining/seeing things idiom
- be miles away idiom
- daydream
- daydreamer
- daydreaming
- dreamfully
- dreamless
- dreamlessly
- dreamscape
- fantasist
- imagination
- in a dream idiom
- mile
- night terror
- nightmare
- oneiric
- redream
- reverie
- thing
- Walter Mitty
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dream verb (HOPE)
- assume
- beyond your wildest dreams idiom
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceivably
- fancy
- guess
- imagine
- in your mind's eye idiom
- inconceivably
- lay the foundation(s) of/for idiom
- look on/upon someone/something as something
- manifest
- regard
- retheorization
- retheorize
- revisualization
- riot
- run riot idiom
- throw