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  1. noun A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
  2. noun A daydream; a reverie.
  3. noun A state of abstraction; a trance.
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  • Even if this dream was a utopia, one should recognize in it the genuine utopia of the revolution itself. —  infinite thØught
  • Nothing matters so that the dream was a good one and the heart approves and the eyes see far She spoke as though herself in a dream, her look intent on the glowing distance, as though unconscious of his presence It's good to have lived among mountains and climbed them when you were young. —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
  • But even though the actual subject of the dream is the wife, still, over and over again, for years, the dream-process will persist in substituting the mother-image. —  Fantasia of the Unconscious
  • Bunyan has told us, with very pardonable vanity, that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands, and was thought worthy to appear in the most superb binding. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • Aren't we taking a long excursion into the domain of the future and into the domain of speculation It may be true that the dream of the dreamer may become a reality if this dream is the dream of the nation. —  The Red Conspiracy
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vision ·  memory ·  idea ·  beauty ·  story ·  fear ·  mystery ·  song ·  mind ·  reality

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dream:   dreams ·  dreamt ·  dreamed ·  dreaming
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  1. Middle English drem, from Old English drēam, joy, music; akin to Old Saxon drōm, mirth, dream.

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  1. from Middle English dreme, dreem, drem, dream, a dream, from Anglo-Saxon *dreám (not found in this sense) = Old Saxon drōm = OFries. drām = Dutch droom = Middle Low German drōm, Low German droom = Old High German Middle High German troum, German traum = Icelandic draumr = Swedish dröm = Danish dröm, a dream; perhaps literally a deceptive vision, orig. *draugmo-, from Teutonic √ *drug, seen in Old High German triogan, Middle High German triegen, German triegen, now trügen = Old Saxon bi-drioqan (= Old High German bitriogan), deceive, delude (cf. Old Saxon drugi, deceptive, Old High German Middle High German ge-troc = Old Saxon gi-drog, phantom, apparition, = Icelandic draugr, a ghost, spirit; = Sanskrit √druh (for *dhmgh?), hurt (by deceit, wile, magic), cf. OPers. drauga, a lie). Though generally identified with dream, Anglo-Saxon dream, joy, a joyful sound, etc., there is really nothing to connect the two words except the likeness of form.
  2. from Middle English dremen (not in Anglo-Saxon) = Dutch droomen = Swedish drömma = Danish drömme = Old High German troumjan, Middle High German troumen, German träumen, dream; from the noun.
  3. Middle English drem, dreem, dreme, earlier dream (rare except in earliest Middle English), a sound, especially a joyful sound, jubilation, from Anglo-Saxon dreám, a sound, especially a joyful sound, song, harmony, joy (very common), = Old Saxon drōm, joy; hence the verb Anglo-Saxon dry¯man, drēman, rejoice, make jubilee, sing, = Old Saxon drōmian, rejoice. Prob. not connected with dream, q. v., but perhaps allied to Greek θρῡλος, a noise as of many voices, a shouting, murmuring; perhaps also allied to drone, q. v.
 

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