daydreamnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈdeɪ.driːm/us/ˈdeɪ.driːm/a series of pleasant thoughts about something you would prefer to be doing or something you would like to achieve in the future:
He never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
I was just enjoying a daydream about winning the Nobel Prize for literature.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dreaming
- be hearing/imagining/seeing things idiom
- be miles away idiom
- daydreaming
- daze
- dream
- dreamer
- fantasist
- fantasize
- hallucinate
- hallucination
- hallucinatory
- in a dream idiom
- nightmare
- optical illusion
- out of 2
- out of it idiom
- reverie
- thing
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daydream
verb [ I ] ukus
C1
Stop daydreaming and do some work!
daydreamer
noun [ C ] uk/ˈdeɪ.driː.mər/us/ˈdeɪ.driː.mɚ/