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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And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes,
She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, “Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, thump!
“Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, “It _was_ a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.” So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
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