dream
verb (SLEEP) /driːm/ (dreamed or dreamt, dreamed or dreamt)Definition
A2 [I or T] to experience events and images in your mind while you are sleeping: What did you dream about last night? I often dream about/of flying. [+ that] I dreamed that I was having a baby.Dreaming › [I or T] mainly UK to imagine that you have heard, done, or seen something when you have not: Did you say that you were going tonight or did I dream it? I thought I'd bought some polish and it seems I haven't - I must have been dreaming.Imagining and conceiving
(Definition of dream verb (SLEEP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be hearing/imagining/seeing things idiom
- be miles away idiom
- daydream noun
- daze noun
- dream noun (SLEEP)
- dreamer noun
- dreamless adjective
- fantasist noun
- fantasize verb
- hallucinate verb
- hallucination noun
- hallucinatory adjective
- imagination noun
- in a dream idiom
- nightmare noun
- optical illusion noun
- out of it idiom
- reverie noun
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