dreams
plural of “dream” — a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
An inflected form of dream · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,607 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,287 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep also: dreaming I had a dream about you last night
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake also: dreaming he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality
- a cherished desire also: ambition, aspiration his ambition is to own his own business
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) also: pipe dream I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality he went about his work as if in a dream
- someone or something wonderful this dessert is a dream
dreams in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Alas! at the first words that I heard, all my fine dreams took wings.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He was never so happy with her as when he abandoned himself to these dreams.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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They are born predestined; solemn voices announce their coming, and their mothers have marvellous dreams about them.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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And oft the milkmaid, in her dreams, Drums in the pail with the flashing streams, Murmuring, “So, boss! so!”
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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And silver white the river gleams, As if Diana, in her dreams, Had dropt her silver bow Upon the meadows low.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1