If you describe someone as a dreamer, you mean that they spend a lot of time thinking about and planning for things that they would like to happen but which are improbable or impractical.
Far from being a dreamer, she's a level-headed pragmatist.
Synonyms: idealist, visionary, daydreamer, utopian More Synonyms of dreamer
dreamer in British English
(ˈdriːmə)
noun
1.
a person who dreams habitually
2.
a person who lives in or escapes to a world of fantasy or illusion; escapist
3. (often capital) US informal
a person who has lived in the US without official authorization since coming to the country as a minor but who meets certain conditions that make him or her eligible for special immigration status
4. archaic
a prophet; visionary
dreamer in American English
(ˈdrimər)
noun
1.
a person who dreams
2.
a person given to daydreaming
3.
a person who has ideas or schemes considered impractical; visionary
Examples of 'dreamer' in a sentence
dreamer
This dispatch is entertaining, involving first-person radio about dreamers and their dreams.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We owe it to a generation of teenage dreamers to show we can do it again.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The patient is both the dreamer and the dream.
Ridgway, Roy Caring for your Unborn Child (1990)
At the expense of dreams and dreamers.
Peter McEvoy For Love or Money (2006)
Fine, if you are a teenage dreamer.
The Sun (2015)
She's young, naive and an idealistic dreamer.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I am a great dreamer.
Jane Austen Emma (1815)
But I'm not some idealistic dreamer about the special relationship.
The Sun (2010)
When I talk to these young dreamers entering the world of ministry, they hear me emphasize finding trained ears to hear them.
Christianity Today (2000)
In other languages
dreamer
British English: dreamer NOUN
If you describe someone as a dreamer, you mean that they spend a lot of time thinking about and planning for things that they would like to happen.
Far from being a dreamer, she's a level-headed pragmatist.
American English: dreamer
Brazilian Portuguese: sonhador
Chinese: 空想家
European Spanish: soñador
French: rêveur
German: Träumer
Italian: sognatore
Japanese: 空想家
Korean: 몽상가
European Portuguese: sonhador
Latin American Spanish: soñador
Chinese translation of 'dreamer'
dreamer
(ˈdriːməʳ)
n(c)
空想家 (kōngxiǎngjiā) (名, míng)
(noun)
I was a dreamer, a romancer.
Synonyms
idealist
He is not such an idealist that he cannot see the problems.
visionary
Visionaries see the world not as it is but as it could be.
daydreamer
utopian
Kennedy had no patience with dreamers or liberal utopians.
theorizer
fantasizer
romancer
Don Quixote
escapist
Walter Mitty
fantasist
fantast
Additional synonyms
in the sense of daydreamer
Synonyms
fantasizer,
visionary,
dreamer,
Walter Mitty,
wishful thinker,
castle-builder,
pipe dreamer,
woolgatherer
in the sense of utopian
Kennedy had no patience with dreamers or liberal utopians.
Synonyms
dreamer,
visionary,
idealist,
Don Quixote,
romanticist
in the sense of visionary
Definition
a visionary person
Visionaries see the world not as it is but as it could be.