dream·er

(drē′mər)

1. One that dreams.

a. A visionary.

b. An idealist.

3. A habitually impractical person.

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dreamer

(ˈdriːmə)

1. a person who dreams habitually

2. (Psychology) a person who lives in or escapes to a world of fantasy or illusion; escapist

3. archaic a prophet; visionary

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dream•er

(ˈdri mər)

n.

1. a person who dreams.

2. an impractical or unrealistic person.

3. a person who has bold or highly speculative ideas or plans; visionary.

[1250–1300]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	dreamer - someone who is dreaming sleeper, slumberer - a rester who is sleeping
	2.	dreamer - someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations idealist Don Quixote - any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero) romantic - a soulful or amorous idealist visionary - a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
	3.	dreamer - a person who escapes into a world of fantasy escapist, wishful thinker daydreamer, woolgatherer - someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming

dreamer

noun idealist, visionary, daydreamer, utopian, theorizer, fantasizer, romancer, Don Quixote, escapist, Walter Mitty, fantasist, fantast I was a dreamer, a romancer.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

dreamer

noun

A person inclined to be imaginative or idealistic but impractical:

idealist, utopian, visionary.

Translations

حالِم

snílek

drømmerfantast

draumóramaîur

rojko

hayalcihayalperest

空想家

dreamer

[ˈdriːməʳ] N (= impractical person) → soñador(a) m/f
he's a bit of a dreamer (= idealistic) → es un soñador; (= absent-minded) → es un despistado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dreamer

[ˈdriːmə^r] n → rêveur/euse m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dreamer

n → Träumer(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dreamer

[ˈdriːməʳ] n → sognatore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

dream

(driːm) noun

1. thoughts and pictures in the mind that come mostly during sleep. I had a terrible dream last night.

2. a state of being completely occupied by one's own thoughts. Don't sit there in a dream!

3. something perfect or very beautiful. Your house is a dream!

4. an ambition or hope. It's my dream to win a Nobel Prize.

verb – past tense, past participles dreamed, ~dreamt (dremt) –

(sometimes with of) to see visions and pictures in the mind, especially when asleep. For years I dreamed of being a great artist; I dreamt last night that the house had burnt down.

ˈdreamer noun

a person who is often occupied with his thoughts. I'm afraid my son is a bit of a dreamer and not very practical.

ˈdreamless adjective

(of sleep) sound; not disturbed by dreams.

ˈdreamy adjective

as if of a person who is not quite awake. a dreamy smile; She is too dreamy.

ˈdreamily adverb

ˈdreaminess noun

dream up

to invent. I'm sure she'll dream up some silly plan.

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Langland was "afeard of her face though she was fair." But the lovely lady, who is Holy Church, speaks gently to the dreamer. She tells him that the tower is the dwelling of Truth, who is the lord of all and who gives to each as he hath need.

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Her talk, and something rather in her voice than her talk, soon revealed her as a curious mixture of youth and age, of dreamer and desillusionee.

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The apparition confronting the dreamer in the haunted wood--the thing so like, yet so unlike his mother--was horrible!

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I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile.

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As it was, miserably and helplessly, not half himself, a puppet dreamer in a half-nightmare, he knew, as a restless sleeper awakening between vexing dreams, that he was being transported head-downward out of the canoe house that stank of death, through the village that was only less noisome, and up a path under lofty, wide-spreading trees that were beginning languidly to stir with the first breathings of the morning wind.

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John Barleycorn will not let the dreamer dream, the liver live.

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I am a great dreamer. I dream of every body at Highbury when I am away and when I have gone through my particular friends, then I begin dreaming of Mr.

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" 'Neath blue-bell or streamer - Or tufted wild spray That keeps, from the dreamer,

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"And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?"

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Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object?

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I was a terrible dreamer, I would dream for three months on end, tucked away in my corner, and you may believe me that at those moments I had no resemblance to the gentleman who, in the perturbation of his chicken heart, put a collar of German beaver on his great-coat.

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He was a great dreamer, and believed in charms and talismans, or medicines, and could foretell the approach of strangers by the howling or barking of the small prairie wolf.

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