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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.
  2. v. To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A reverie; a castle in the air; a visionary fancy, especially of wishes gratified or hopes fulfilled, indulged in when awake; an extravagant conceit of the fancy or imagination.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
  2. v. To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. absentminded dreaming while awake
  2. v. have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake
  3. v. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

Examples

  • “Here possible hear all about comfort in daydream: bedding”

    In Bed with WHO?

  • “I think the subject of the daydream is his evening with this woman ( "the wind in the willows played tea for two"?).”

    The WELL: Scarlet Begonias

  • “It leaves you absolutely speechless, wondering if you really watched it or it was some kind of daydream that your sick mind came up with?”

    Yeti: A Love Story (2006)

  • “I like to daydream which is exactly why I look at pictures of the H&H Royal and Miss Cuthbert.”

    A Brief Statement of Policy

  • “I know it's not a Browning/write poetry/people wait on you kind of daydream, but honestly, I'm over waiting--and being waited on!”

    Control, loss of control, running away and the little things.

  • “He had long ago convinced himself that the whole escalator incident had been in his imagination, a kind of daydream, probably the result of the kind of videos he had been watching.”

    Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories

  • “It was a strange kind of daydream, because whenever I thought of some Beverly Hills shopkeeper smiling at me I also thought that he was lying, that he really hated me.”

    Simon & Schuster: White Butterfly

  • “The same kind of daydream may also be No. 1 among men.”

    TIME.com: Top Stories

  • “The directors have decided that the best way to describe Craig's psychological malaise is through a series of "daydream" sequences, and each one is more painful than the last.”

    Cinematical

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. reverie
  1. dream
  1. conceit
  1. fancy
  1. castle in the air
  1. air castle
  1. chateau en espagne
  1. pipe dream

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. actuality

hypernyms (10)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. dreaming
  2. dream
  1. idle
  2. stagnate
  1. slug
  2. laze
  1. imagine
  2. envisage
  1. ideate
  2. conceive of

same context (36)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. symbolist
  2. bow-tie
  3. to!
  4. pean
  5. adaily
  6. won
  7. disrobing
  1. fetichism
  2. starveling
  3. talk-show
  4. externality
  5. leaguers
  6. galliard
  7. Venus
  1. microbiologist
  2. idol-worship
  3. multipath
  4. sunbright
  5. meerkat
  6. high-top
  7. voiding
  1. apostolate
  2. somnolence
  3. hallucination
  4. euphoria
  5. soul-searching
  6. conciousness
  7. drowsiness
  1. analgesia
  2. self-analysis
  3. disorientation
  4. imaginings
  5. self-scrutiny
  6. reverie
  7. communing
  1. revery

reverse dictionary (6)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. reverie
  1. stargaze
  1. woolgather
  1. dream
  1. fantasy
  1. daydream

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Words tagged ‘daydream’

  1. unelmoida

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  • marky oroboros, great quote. Aug 20, 2011

  • oroboros Do you realize that you never, ever daydream about the present?

    All ordinary daydreaming had its origin in feeling.

    --Jan Cox Jun 6, 2007

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