dreamed

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dream

(drēm)

1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

2. A daydream; a reverie.

3. A state of abstraction; a trance: wandering around in a dream.

4. A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration: a dream of owning their own business.

5. A wild fancy or unrealistic hope: He knew that playing for a professional team was only a dream.

6. Informal One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful: Her boyfriend is a dream.

v. dreamed or dreamt (drĕmt), dream·ing, dreams

v.intr.

1. To experience a dream in sleep: dreamed of meeting an old friend.

2. To daydream: sat there dreaming during class.

3. To have a deep aspiration or hope: dreaming of a world at peace.

4. To regard something as feasible or practical: I wouldn't dream of skiing on icy slopes.

v.tr.

1. To experience a dream of while asleep: Did it storm last night, or did I dream it?

2. To conceive as possible; imagine: We never dreamed it would snow so much.

3. To have as an aspiration or hope: She dreams that she will become a pilot.

4. To pass (time) idly or in reverie.

Phrasal Verbs:

dream on Informal

Used in the imperative to indicate that a statement or suggestion is improbable or unrealistic.

dream up

To invent; concoct: dreamed up a plan to corner the market.

[Middle English drem, from Old English drēam, joy, music; akin to Old Saxon drōm, mirth, dream.]

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Adj.

dreamed - conceived of or imagined or hoped for; "his dreamed symphony that would take the world of music by storm"

unreal - lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"

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Yet I never dreamed of cities; nor did a house ever occur in any of my dreams.

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Eight-and-twenty days went by, my father, and on the nine-and- twentieth it befell that Chaka, having dreamed a dream in his troubled sleep, summoned before him certain women of the kraal, to the number of a hundred or more.

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'Now, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all.

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Hear, I pray you, the dream that I dreamed, my friends, and help me to divine its meaning!

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When Mrs Flintwinch dreamed, she usually dreamed, unlike the son of her old mistress, with her eyes shut.

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Who has not dreamed of her,--who that can dream at all?

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The daughter of Polycrates, dreamed that Jupiter bathed her father, and Apollo anointed him; and it came to pass, that he was crucified in an open place, where the sun made his body run with sweat, and the rain washed it.

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"Am I right," I began, "in supposing that you dreamed of me in Shetland, as you once before dreamed of me while I was at my house in Perthshire?"