Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🌟 A strong wish 🌟 To imagine 😴 Sleep vision 😴 To see in sleep 😍 Very desirable thing
to dream

to dream

226 1.0
To have thoughts or images while you sleep
  • verb
  • /driːm/
translation icon : soñar
  • Every night, she dreams of flying high above the clouds.

As the Weaver floated, she dreamt about staying forever.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • There was the child that dreamed, believed in the world.

  • Every night I dreamed of death, dreams that woke me up and left me shaking.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Like Mike, sometimes I dream that he is me.

  • Just dream me right baby, Just dream me right now.

  • Oh, we would, we would dream of that.

  • I dreamed about this game, fat man, every night on the road.

    The Hustler (1961)

  • A few months after my mother died, I dreamed we were together in a foreign place.

    Academic text (1997)

  • It's like he was never really here, like I dreamed him coming to the house.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • More often she dreamed: a second was long enough, with eyes open or closed.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • For years, astronomers had dreamed of flying an even larger telescope to observe in the infrared.

    Academic text (2002)

Idioms

a dream come true
46 2.7

A thing you wanted for a long time that finally happens

like a dream
  • Informal
46 4.9

Very well and smoothly, as if perfect

to follow your dream
18 3.4

To try to reach a personal goal despite problems

to live the dream
  • Informal
16 4.2

To have the life you always wanted after hard work

Phrasal Verbs

to dream of
385 2.7

To wish for something you want, often something unlikely to happen

to dream up
  • Informal
38 3.9

To think of a new or unusual idea

to dream big
  • Informal
15 3.4

To have very big goals for the future

to pursue a dream
1 3.0

Work to make a dream come true

Compounds

American Dream
103 3.9

The idea that anyone in the United States can become successful through hard work

the American Dream
  • US
96 3.1

An idea that anyone in the US can become successful by working hard

pipe dream
  • Informal
23 6.8

A hope or plan that is not likely to happen

lifelong dream
14 3.4

A goal someone wants for most of their life

impossible dream
4 6.8

A hope for something you cannot achieve

shattered dream
2 4.6

A hope or plan for the future that is no longer possible

wet dream
  • Offensive
2 8.1

A sexual dream during sleep that makes a boy or man release semen

wet dream
  • Slang
1 8.8

An unrealistic hope that is not likely to happen

dim and distant dream
  • Literature
7.2

A hope that seems unlikely to come true

dream trance
  • Archaic
8.4

A type of dance music with soft, melodic sounds popular in the late 1990s

Amerikkkan dream
  • NSFW
9.9

A view that the American dream hides racism and unfair treatment of some groups

manic pixie dream girl
  • Offensive
9.9

A woman in a story who is quirky, free and lively and inspires a man to enjoy life

How Vivid

to dream
226 1.0
to sleep
∞ 1.0
to doze
43 2.3

Surface Forms

dream infinitive
dreamed past
dreamed past participle
dreaming present participle
dreams third person singular

Etymology

The verb dream comes from the same Old English drēam and Old Norse draumr for 'joy' and 'sleep vision', so to dream is to 'have images' or feelings in your mind while you sleep. This links the old words to the modern idea of dreaming at night.