Dictionary definition · dream
noun
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep"I had a dream about you last night"
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake"he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
- a cherished desire"his ambition is to own his own business"
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)"I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality"he went about his work as if in a dream"
- someone or something wonderful"this dessert is a dream"
verb
- have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- experience while sleeping"She claims to never dream"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).