Dreamt

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed} (dr[=e]md) or
     {Dreamt} (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS.
     dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See {Dream}, n.]
     1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of
        sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of;
        as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.


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     2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to
        anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have
        a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
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              Here may we sit and dream
              Over the heavenly theme.              --Keble.
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              They dream on in a constant course of reading, but
              not digesting.                        --Locke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dream
       n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
            sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: {dreaming}]
       2: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
          business" [syn: {ambition}, {aspiration}]
       3: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
          dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: {dreaming}]
       4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the
          opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor
          of the universe" [syn: {pipe dream}]
       5: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release
          from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
       6: someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
       v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: {daydream}, {woolgather},
             {stargaze}]
       2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He
          dreamt a strange scene"
       [also: {dreamt}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dreamt
       See {dream}