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(verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy |
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Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
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Related Words: conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine |
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(verb) experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene" |
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Related Words: comprehend, fantasize, perceive |
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(noun) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream" |
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Related Words: reverie, revery |
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(noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" |
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Synonyms: dreaming |
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Related Words: imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery, nightmare, wet dream |
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(noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" |
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Synonyms: dreaming |
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Related Words: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, imagination, imaginativeness, reverie, revery, vision, woolgathering |
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(noun) someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream" |
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Related Words: flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection |
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(noun) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" |
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Synonyms: pipe dream |
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Related Words: fantasy, phantasy |
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(noun) a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" |
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Synonyms: ambition, aspiration |
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Related Words: American Dream, desire, emulation |
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