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dreamt

  [dremt]
–verb
a pt. and pp. of dream.

dream

  [dreem] noun, verb, dreamed or dreamt, dream⋅ing, adjective
–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 fol. by of): I wouldn't dream of asking them.
–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 fol. by away): to dream away the afternoon.
–adjective
15. most desirable; ideal: a dream vacation.
—Verb phrase
16. dream up, to form in the imagination; devise: They dreamed up the most impossible plan.
Origin:
1200–50; ME dreem, OE drēam joy, mirth, gladness, c. OS drōm mirth, dream, ON draumr, OHG troum dream; modern sense first recorded in ME but presumably also current in OE, as in OS

Related forms:
dreamful, adjective
dream⋅ful⋅ly, adverb
dream⋅ful⋅ness, noun
dream⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
dreamlike, 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.
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dream   (drēm)   
n.  

  1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

  2. A daydream; a reverie.

  3. A state of abstraction; a trance.

  4. A wild fancy or hope.

  5. A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration: a dream of owning their own business.

  6. One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful: Our new car runs like a dream.

v.   dreamed or dreamt (drěmt), dream·ing, dreams

v.   intr.

  1. To experience a dream in sleep: dreamed of meeting an old friend.

  2. To daydream.

  3. To have a deep aspiration: dreaming of a world at peace.

  4. To regard something as feasible or practical: I wouldn't dream of trick skiing on icy slopes.

v.   tr.

  1. To experience a dream of while asleep: Did it storm last night, or did I dream it?

  2. To conceive of; imagine.

  3. To pass (time) idly or in reverie.

Phrasal Verb(s):
dream on Informal Used in the imperative to indicate that a statement or suggestion is improbable or unrealistic.
dream upTo invent; concoct: dreamed up a plan to corner the market.

[Middle English drem, from Old English drēam, joy, music; akin to Old Saxon drōm, mirth, dream.]
dreamt   (drěmt)   
v.  A past tense and a past participle of dream.
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Word Origin & History

dream 
c.1250 in the sense "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind," 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). Dreamy is 1567 in the sense "full of dreams;" 1941 as "perfect, ideal." Dreamboat "romantically desirable person" is from 1947. Dreamland is c.1834; dreamscape is 1959, in a Sylvia Plath poem.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2dream
Pronunciation: 'drEm
Function: verb
Inflected Form: dreamed /'drem(p)t, 'drEmd/ or dreamt /'drem(p)t/; dream·ing /'drE-mi[ng]/
intransitive senses
1 : to have a dream
2 : to indulge in daydreams orfantasies dream transitive senses
: to have a dream of —dream·er /'drE-m&r/ noun
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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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