Dream

n.	1.	The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. - Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. - Byron.
	2.	A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; - in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. - Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. - J. C. Shairp.
v. i.	1.	To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; - often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed (drēmd) or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.]
	2.	To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme - Keble. They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting - Locke.
v. t.	1.	To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; - often followed by an objective clause. Your old men shall dream dreams - Acts ii. 17. At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight - Dryden. And still they dream that they shall still succeed - Cowper. To dream away to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. - Dryden.

Noun	1.	dream - a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" Synonyms: dreaming
	2.	dream - a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" Synonyms: ambition, aspiration
	3.	dream - imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" Synonyms: dreaming
	4.	dream - a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" Synonyms: pipe dream
	5.	dream - a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
	6.	dream - someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
Verb	1.	dream - have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy Synonyms: daydream, woolgather, stargaze
	2.	dream - experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"

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