dream
/dɹim/ noun A1- Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. · Last night I had a vividly scary dream about an immortal snail that chased me around and could kill me if it touched me.· Crazy things like that only happen in dreams.
- A hope or wish. · This year I fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting the South Pacific.
- A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy. · live in a dream· wake up from a dream
Plural dreams
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But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
One passed at the moment, which he hailed; he gave his address to the driver, and springing in, threw himself on the seat, and gave loose to dreams of ambition.
It was all like some dreadful dream.”
No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes,
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