dreamnoun [ C ]
uk/driːm/us/driːm/dream noun [ C ] (SLEEP)
A2 a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you are sleeping:
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- Jane's hand on my shoulder woke me from a bad dream.
- I was in the middle of an amazing dream when the alarm went off.
- Some people believe that dreams reveal important things about your subconscious thoughts.
- I had a weird dream about you last night.
- If I eat a lot of cheese in the evening, I have amazing dreams.
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Dreaming
- be hearing/imagining/seeing things idiom
- be miles away idiom
- daydream
- daydreaming
- daze
- dreamless
- fantasist
- fantasize
- hallucinate
- hallucination
- imagination
- in a dream idiom
- mile
- nightmare
- optical illusion
- out of 2
- out of it idiom
- thing
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dream noun [ C ] (HOPE)
B1 something that you want to happen very much but that is not very likely:
the best that you can imagine:
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- Their dream to bring computers and ordinary people together was nothing less than revolutionary.
- To win the Olympic gold medal was the realization of his life's dream.
- Ever since she was a child her dream has been to teach school.
- It was his boyhood dream to become a film director.
- After all the problems I'd had getting pregnant, Oliver's birth was a dream come true.
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Feelings of desire
- appetite
- caprice
- compulsion
- covetous
- craving
- drive
- get itchy feet idiom
- hankering
- hunger
- impulse
- impulse buy
- longing
- lust
- thirst
- urge
- vaulting
- whim
- wish
- yearning
- yen
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Idiom(s)
dreamadjective
uk/driːm/us/driːm/the perfect house, job, etc., that you want more than any other
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Goals and purposes
- affordance
- aim
- ambition
- aspiration
- avail
- cause 1
- dedicated
- deliverable
- end
- KPI
- objective
- order
- orientation
- point
- poodle
- poodle around (sth)
- prize
- should
- use
- utility
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dreamverb
uk/driːm/us/driːm/dreamed or dreamt, dreamed or dreamtdream verb (SLEEP)
A2 [ I or T ] to experience events and images in your mind while you are sleeping:
[ I or T ] mainly UK to imagine that you have heard, done, or seen something when you have not:
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- She dreamed she saw someone standing at the foot of her bed.
- There's an old superstition that young girls going to bed on this night dream of their future husbands.
- Last night I dreamed that you were living in my kitchen - it was weird!
- I couldn't believe what I was seeing - I thought I must be dreaming.
- If you're dreaming that you're about to die, you always wake up, don't you?
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Dreaming
- be hearing/imagining/seeing things idiom
- be miles away idiom
- daydream
- daydreaming
- daze
- dreamless
- fantasist
- fantasize
- hallucinate
- hallucination
- imagination
- in a dream idiom
- mile
- nightmare
- optical illusion
- out of 2
- out of it idiom
- thing
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dream verb (HOPE)
B1 [ I ] to imagine something that you would like to happen:
used to tell someone that what they are hoping for is not likely to happen or to be true:
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Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- feel
- fertile
- foundation
- grant
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- suspicion
- vision
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