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dream

Entry Word:: dream
Function:: noun

Text: 1 a series of often striking pictures created by the imagination during sleep<I had a dream last night about flying without any support>Synonymsnightmare, visionRelated Wordsdaydream, pipe dream, reverie (also revery); chimera, delusion, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantasm 2 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality<his invention is only a dream right now, but someday it might be a reality>— see fantasy 1 3 something that one hopes or intends to accomplish<my dream is to open my own restaurant>— see goal

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