dreamer

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  1. noun One that dreams.
  2. noun A visionary.
  3. noun An idealist.
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  • Beauty's Beauty was a day-dreamer, a woman who loved books and stories and things of the mind: a younger woman's younger woman. —  EBSCOhost
  • She blinked like a dreamer, awakening to find him laughing down at her. —  THE MISTRESS
  • While some may dismiss Nasheed as a dreamer, the questions he poses about his tiny island state will be multiplied by the vast areas of much more populous countries such as Bangladesh, —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • High level lucidity is defined as "a state in which the dreamer is aware that he is in bed dreaming and that no physical harm can befall him" —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • If the dreamer is a woman, then she will soon come into realization of her power as a woman. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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enthusiast ·  idealist ·  thinker ·  madman ·  moralist ·  theorist ·  adventurer ·  philanthropist ·  seer ·  fanatic ·  fool ·  reformer

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dreamer:   dreamers
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  1. from Middle English dremere, dremer = Dutch droomer = Old High German troumāre, German träumer = Swedish drömmare = Danish drömmer; from dream, v., + -er.
 

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