Definition of dream

"dream" in the noun sense

1. dream, dreaming

a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

"I had a dream about you last night"

2. dream, dreaming

imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

"he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"

3. ambition, aspiration, dream

a cherished desire

"his ambition is to own his own business"

4. pipe dream, dream

a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe

"I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

5. dream

a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality

"he went about his work as if in a dream"

6. dream

someone or something wonderful

"this dessert is a dream"

"dream" in the verb sense

1. dream, daydream, woolgather, stargaze

have a daydream indulge in a fantasy

2. dream

experience while sleeping

"She claims to never dream"

"He dreamt a strange scene"

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Quotations for dream

Rapture is a dream. [ Byron ]

Dreams are rudiments
Of the great state to come.
We dream what is
About to happen. [ Bailey ]

Hope is a working-man's dream. [ Pliny ]

Men are the dream of a shadow. [ Pindar ]

A dream itself is but a shadow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hope, alas! is our waking dream. [ Madame de Girardin ]

Hope is the dream of a man awake. [ French Proverb ]

'Tis noon - a calm, unbroken sleep
Is on the blue waves of the deep;
A soft haze, like a fairy dream,
Is floating over wood and stream;
And many a broad magnolia flower,
Within its shadowy woodland bower,
Is gleaming like a lovely star. [ George D. Prentice ]

That holy dream - that holy dream.
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam,
A lonely spirit guiding. [ Poe ]

Thoughts so sudden, that they seem
The revelations of a dream. [ Longfellow ]

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream,
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem. [ Longfellow ]

In blissful dream, in silent night.
There came to me, with magic might,
With magic might, my own sweet love,
Into my little room above. [ Heine ]

I'll dream no more - by manly mind
Not even in sleep is will resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest, and dream no more. [ Scott ]

Life is a dream; death, an awakening. [ La Beaumelle ]

Think not, dream not that thou livest,
If thy hand doth idly lie,
If thy soul for ever longing,
Yearn but for the by and bye. [ M. W. Wood ]

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. [ Wordsworth ]

Like the hand which ends a dream,
Death, with the might of his sunbeam,
Touches the flesh and the soul awakes. [ Browning ]

Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there. [ Cowper ]

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. [ Jul. Caes ]

A trifle makes a dream, a trifle breaks. [ Tennyson ]

And thou art terrible - the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And ail we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine. [ Halleck ]

The dream of happiness is real happiness. [ Fontanes ]

Soldier, rest! thy warfare over.
Dream of fighting fields no more;
Sleep the sleep that knows not breakings,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. [ Scott ]

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty -
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? [ Ellen Sturgis Hooper ]

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak - little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

A change came over the spirit of my dream. [ Byron ]

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. [ Lamartine ]

Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd! [ Moore ]

And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. [ Lowell ]

What the hand can not reach is but a dream. [ Soulary ]

The dream
Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark east,
Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn. [ Tennyson ]

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. [ Alice Cary ]

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake! [ Pope ]

The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where, housed beside their mighty honeycomb,
They dream their polity shall long survive. [ Charles (Tennyson) Turner ]

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. [ Prior ]

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. [ Pope ]

But still I dream that somewhere there must be
The spirit of a child that waits for me. [ Bayard Taylor ]

We are near waking when we dream that we dream. [ Novalis ]

Beneath the loveliest dream there coils a fear. [ T. Watts ]

Oh, greatness! thou art but a flattering dream,
A watery bubble, lighter than the air. [ Tracy ]

Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality. [ Voltaire ]

Love strikes one hour - love. Those never loved
Who dream that they loved once. [ Elizabeth B. Browning ]

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death and that vast forever,
One grand, sweet song. [ Charles Kingsley ]

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. [ George Linley ]

Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed. [ Cowper ]

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's. [ Hazlitt ]

And her face so fair
Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. [ Byron ]

As one who in some frightful dream would shun
His pressing foe, labors in vain to run
And his own slowness in his sleep bemoans.
In short thick sighs, weak cries, and tender groans. [ Dryden ]

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.
(Strange dream! that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever,
Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
Thus shalt thou make life, death, and the vast forever. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. [ Byron ]

What studies please, what most delight.
And fill men's thoughts, they dream them over at night. [ Creech ]

Let me dream that love goes with us to the shore unknown. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

A great career is a dream of youth realized in mature age. [ De Vigny ]

The million covet wealth, but how few dream of its perils? [ John Neal ]

There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. [ Moore ]

Worn, gray olive-woods, which seem the fittest foliage for a dream. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Love, that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it. [ Senancourt ]

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors. [ Shakespeare ]

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. [ Alfred de Musset ]

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. [ Yoko Ono ]

Thou comest as the memory of a dream, which now is sad because it hath been sweet. [ Shelley ]

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away. [ Sarah Helen Whitman ]

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! [ Barry Cornwall ]

In this state she gallops, night by night, over ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream - past the wit of man to say what dream it was. [ William Shakespeare ]

A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better. [ L'Estrange ]

Love in marriage would be the realization of a beautiful dream, if marriage were not too often the end of it. [ A. Karr ]

We dream such beautiful dreams, that we often lose all our happiness when we perceive that they are only dreams. [ E. Souvestre ]

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream - it may be so the moment after death. [ Hawthorne ]

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. [ Bonnell ]

Her deep blue eyes smile constantly, as if they had by fitness won the secret of a happy dream she does not care to speak. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Why do we dream in our sleep if we have no soul? and, if we have one, how is it that dreams are so incoherent and extravagant? [ Voltaire ]

'Twas but a dream - let it pass - let it vanish like so many others! What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless. [ Longfellow ]

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities. [ Southey ]

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, tall oaks, branchcharmed by the earnest stars, dream, and so dream, all night without a stir. [ Keats ]

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. [ Carlyle ]

Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable; it appears to us as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Think of living! Thy life, wert thou the pitifullest of all the sons of earth, is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with. [ Carlyle ]

The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. [ Woodworth ]

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. [ William Shakespeare ]

What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked path looks straighter as we approach the end. [ Richter ]

The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. [ Longfellow ]

You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Consistent characters are those which in social intercourse are easy, sure, and gentle. We do not clash with them, and they are never wanting nor contradictory to themselves; their stability incites confidence, their frankness induces self-surrendering openness. We feel at ease with them, we are not offended at their superiority, doubtless we admire them less, but we also hardly dream of feeling envious of them, and they seem almost to disdain malignity by the peaceful influence of their presence. [ Degerando ]

dream in Scrabble®

The word dream is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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The word dream is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

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Word Growth involving dream

Shorter words in dream

am ream

re ream

Longer words containing dream

daydream daydreamed

daydream daydreamer daydreamers

daydream daydreaming

daydream daydreamlike

daydream daydreams

dreamboat dreamboats

dreamcatcher dreamcatchers

dreamed daydreamed

dreamed outdreamed

dreamed redreamed

dreamed undreamed

dreamer daydreamer daydreamers

dreamer dreamers daydreamers

dreamer dreamers nondreamers

dreamer nondreamer nondreamers

dreamier

dreamiest

dreamily

dreaminess

dreaming daydreaming

dreaming nondreaming

dreaming outdreaming

dreaming redreaming

dreamland dreamlands

dreamless dreamlessly

dreamless dreamlessness

dreamlike daydreamlike

dreamlike undreamlike

dreamlit

dreams daydreams

dreams dreamscape dreamscapes

dreams outdreams

dreams pipedreams

dreams redreams

dreamt dreamtime dreamtimes

dreamt outdreamt

dreamt redreamt

dreamt undreamt

dreamworld dreamworlds

dreamy undreamy

nondream nondreamer nondreamers

nondream nondreaming

outdream outdreamed

outdream outdreaming

outdream outdreams

outdream outdreamt

pipedream pipedreams

redream redreamed

redream redreaming

redream redreams

redream redreamt