dream

/dɹˈim/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

noun

1. a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
   “I had a dream about you last night”
2. imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
   “he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality”
3. a cherished desire
   “his ambition is to own his own business”
4. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
   “I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe”
5. a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
   “he went about his work as if in a dream”
6. someone or something wonderful
   “this dessert is a dream”

verb

1. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
2. experience while sleeping
   “She claims to never dream”

Synonyms for dream

• dreaming
• ambition
• aspiration
• pipe dream
• daydream
• woolgather
• stargaze

Words that rhyme with dream

• beam
• stream
• cream
• scheme
• steam
• extreme
• redeem
• scream
• theme
• bream
• esteem
• gleam
• ream
• seam
• seem
• supreme
• daydream
• team
• downstream
• hakim
• regime
• teem
• upstream
• academe
• agleam
• bloodstream
• deem
• episteme
• hakeem
• mainstream