Word Meanings - DREAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the

Additional info about word: DREAM

Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron. 2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DREAM)

• Bubble
• Trifle
• toy
• fancy
• conceit
• vision
• dream
• froth
• trash
• Illusion
• Dream
• mockery
• deception
• delusion
• hallucination
• phantasm
• myth
• false show
• error
• fallacy
• Muse
• Reflect
• ponder
• cogitate
• think
• meditate
• Reverie
• daydream
• trance
• phantasy
• ideality
• woolgathering
• wandering
• musing

Related words: (words related to DREAM)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• MUSQUAW
  The American black bear. See Bear.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• PHANTASY
  See FANCY
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• MUSCAT
  A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• MUSTELINE
  Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidæ, or the weasels and martens.
• MUSCIFORM
  Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• FROTHILY
  In a frothy manner.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• COGITATE
  To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
• MUSCLING
  Exhibition or representation of the muscles. A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.
• FROTHY
  1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.