dream up
noun
1.
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
2.
the sleeping state in which this occurs.
3.
an object seen in a dream.
4.
an involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake.
5.
a vision voluntarily indulged in while awake; daydream; reverie.
6.
an aspiration; goal; aim: A trip to Europe is his dream.
7.
a wild or vain fancy.
8.
something of an unreal beauty, charm, or excellence.
verb (used without object)
9.
to have a dream.
10.
to indulge in daydreams or reveries: He dreamed about vacation plans when he should have been working.
11.
to think or conceive of something in a very remote way (usually followed by of ): I wouldn't dream of asking them.
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verb (used with object)
12.
to see or imagine in sleep or in a vision.
13.
to imagine as if in a dream; fancy; suppose.
14.
to pass or spend (time) in dreaming (often followed by away ): to dream away the afternoon.
adjective
Verb phrases 15.
most desirable; ideal: a dream vacation.
16.
dream up, to form in the imagination; devise: They dreamed up the most impossible plan.
Origin:
1200–50; Middle English dreem, Old English drēam joy, mirth, gladness, cognate with Old Saxon drōm mirth, dream, Old Norse draumr, Old High German troum dream; modern sense first recorded in ME but presumably also current in Old English, as in Old Saxon
1200–50; Middle English dreem, Old English drēam joy, mirth, gladness, cognate with Old Saxon drōm mirth, dream, Old Norse draumr, Old High German troum dream; modern sense first recorded in ME but presumably also current in Old English, as in Old Saxon
Related forms
dream·ful, adjective
dream·ful·ly, adverb
dream·ful·ness, noun
dream·ing·ly, adverb
dream·like, adjective
re·dream, verb, re·dreamed or re·dreamt, re·dream·ing.
un·dreamed, adjective
un·dream·ing, adjective
un·dream·like, adjective
Synonyms
1. Dream, nightmare and vision refer to the kinds of mental images that form during sleep. Dream is the general term for any such succession of images. A nightmare is a dream that brings fear or anxiety: frightened by a nightmare. Vision refers to a series of images of unusual vividness, clarity, order, and significance, sometimes seen in a dream.
1. Dream, nightmare and vision refer to the kinds of mental images that form during sleep. Dream is the general term for any such succession of images. A nightmare is a dream that brings fear or anxiety: frightened by a nightmare. Vision refers to a series of images of unusual vividness, clarity, order, and significance, sometimes seen in a dream.
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dream (driːm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. mental activity, usually in the form of an imagined series of events, occurring during certain phases of sleep |
| b. (as modifier): a dream sequence | |
| c. (in combination): dreamland Related: oneiric | |
| 2. | a. a sequence of imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; daydream; fantasy |
| b. (as modifier): a dream world | |
| 3. | a person or thing seen or occurring in a dream |
| 4. | a cherished hope; ambition; aspiration |
| 5. | a vain hope |
| 6. | a person or thing that is as pleasant, or seemingly unreal, as a dream |
| 7. | go like a dream to move, develop, or work very well |
| —vb (when intr, | |
| 8. | (may take a clause as object) to undergo or experience (a dream or dreams) |
| 9. | (intr) to indulge in daydreams |
| 10. | (intr) to suffer delusions; be unrealistic: you're dreaming if you think you can win |
| 11. | to have an image (of) or fantasy (about) in or as if in a dream |
| 12. | to consider the possibility (of): I wouldn't dream of troubling you |
| —adj | |
| 13. | too good to be true; ideal: dream kitchen |
| Related: oneiric | |
| [Old English drēam song; related to Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr, Greek thrulos noise] | |
| 'dreamful | |
| —adj | |
| 'dreamfully | |
| —adv | |
| 'dreaming | |
| —n, —adj | |
| 'dreamingly | |
| —adv | |
| 'dreamless | |
| —adj | |
| 'dreamlessly | |
| —adv | |
| 'dreamlessness | |
| —n | |
| 'dreamlike | |
| —adj | |
| dream up | |
| —vb | |
| (tr, adverb) to invent by ingenuity and imagination: to dream up an excuse for leaving | |
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Word Origin & History
dream
mid-13c. in the sense "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind" (also as a verb), probably related to O.N. draumr, Dan. drøm, Swed. drom, O.S. drom, Du. droom, O.H.G. troum, Ger. traum "dream," perhaps from W.Gmc. *draugmas "deception, illusion, phantasm" (cf. O.S. bidriogan,
O.H.G. triogan, Ger. trügen "to deceive, delude," O.N. draugr "ghost, apparition"). Possible cognates outside Gmc. are Skt. druh- "seek to harm, injure," Avestan druz- "lie, deceive." But O.E. dream meant only "joy, mirth," also "music." Words for "sleeping vision" in O.E. were mæting and swefn (from PIE *swep-no-; cf. Gk. hypnos). Much study has failed to prove that O.E. dream "noisy merriment" is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Either the meaning of the word changed dramatically or "vision" was an unrecorded secondary O.E. meaning of dream, or there are two separate words here. "It seems as if the presence of dream 'joy, mirth, music,' had caused dream 'dream' to be avoided, at least in literature, and swefn, lit. 'sleep,' to be substituted" [OED]. Dream in the sense of "ideal or aspiration" is from 1931, from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" (1888). Related: Dreamed; dreaming.
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Medical Dictionary
dream (drēm)
n.
A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Dream definition
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).
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Idioms & Phrases
dream up
Invent, concoct, as in Count on her to dream up some explanation for her absence. This expression replaced the somewhat earlier dream out. [c. 1940]
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