a midsummer night's dream

Midsummer Night's Dream, A

noun
a comedy (1595?) by Shakespeare.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream definition


A comedy by William Shakespeare about a group of lovers who spend a night in a forest, where they are the victims of fairies' pranks and enchantments. One famous line from A Midsummer Night's Dream is “Lord, what fools these mortals be!

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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