verb: dream; 3rd person present: dreams; past tense: dreamed; past participle: dreamed; past tense: dreamt; past participle: dreamt; gerund or present participle: dreaming.

a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal.

"I fulfilled a childhood dream when I became champion"

synonyms: ambition, aspiration, hope; More

goal, aim, objective, grail, intention, intent, target;

desire, wish, yearning;

daydream, fantasy, pipe dream

"he realized his childhood dream"

experience dreams during sleep.

"I dreamed about her last night"

synonyms: daydream, be in a trance, be lost in thought, be preoccupied, be abstracted, stare into space, muse, be in la-la land

"she's always dreaming".

indulge in daydreams or fantasies, typically about something greatly desired.

"she had dreamed of a trip to Italy"

synonyms: fantasize about, daydream about; wish for, hope for, long for, yearn for, hanker after, set one's heart on; aspire to, aim for, set one's sights on

"I dreamt of making the Olympic team".

a person or thing perceived as wonderful or perfect.

"her new man's an absolute dream"

synonyms: delight, joy, marvel, wonder, gem, treasure; beauty, vision

"he's an absolute dream".

a state of mind in which someone is or seems to be unaware of their immediate surroundings.

"he had been walking around in a dream all day"

synonyms: daydream, reverie, trance, daze, stupor, haze

"she went around in a dream"

noun: dream; plural noun: dreams


A dream is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.

"I had a recurrent dream about falling from great heights"

synonyms: REM sleep; More

nightmare;

vision, fantasy, hallucination

"I awoke from my dreams"

contemplate the possibility of doing something or that something might be the case.

"I wouldn't dream of foisting myself on you"

synonyms: think, consider, contemplate, conceive

"I wouldn't dream of being late".


an unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy.

"maybe he could get a job and earn some money—but he knew this was just a dream".

see, hear, or feel (something) in a dream.

"maybe you dreamed it"

synonyms: have a dream, have a nightmare

"she dreamed about her own funeral".

Dreaming