dream
noun
[ driːm ]
• a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.
• "I had a recurrent dream about falling from great heights"
• a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal.
• "I fulfilled a childhood dream when I became champion"
Similar:
ambition,
aspiration,
hope,
goal,
design,
plan,
aim,
object,
objective,
grail,
holy grail,
target,
intention,
intent,
desire,
wish,
notion,
yearning,
daydream,
fantasy,
illusion,
delusion,
pipe dream,
chimera,
castles in the air,
castles in Spain,
pie in the sky,
dream
verb
• experience dreams during sleep.
• "I dreamed about her last night"
• indulge in daydreams or fantasies about something greatly desired.
• "she had dreamed of a trip to Italy"
Similar:
fantasize about,
daydream about,
wish for,
hope for,
long for,
yearn for,
hunger for,
hanker after,
set one's heart on,
aspire to,
desire to,
wish to,
aim for,
seek to,
have as one's goal/aim,
set one's sights on,
thirst for/after,
• contemplate the possibility of doing something or that something might be the case.
• "I wouldn't dream of foisting myself on you"
Origin:
Middle English: of Germanic origin, related to Dutch droom and German Traum, and probably also to Old English drēam ‘joy, music’.
