dream

Noun

• someone or something wonderful
  • this dessert is a dream
    

• a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
  • he went about his work as if in a dream
    

• a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
  • I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe
    

• a cherished desire
  • his ambition is to own his own business
    

• imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
  • he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality
    

• a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
  • I had a dream about you last night
    

Verb

• experience while sleeping
  • She claims to never dream
    
  • He dreamt a strange scene
    

• have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pipe dream , ambition , aspiration , dreaming , daydream , woolgather , stargaze