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dreamer

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dream·er  (drmr)
n.
1. One that dreams.
2.
a. A visionary.
b. An idealist.
3. A habitually impractical person.

dreamer [ˈdriːmə]
n
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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dreamerdreamer - someone who is dreaming              
sleeper, slumberer - a rester who is sleeping
2.dreamer - someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
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.dreamerdreamer - a person who escapes into a world of fantasy
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.
Translations
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
dreamer [ˈdriːmər] nrêveur/euse m/f
dreamer
nTräumer(in) m(f)
dreamer [ˈdriːməʳ] nsognatore/trice
dreamer [ˈdriːməʳ] nsognatore/trice


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But the dreamer kneeled on his knees and prayed her stay yet a while to teach him to know Falsehood also, as well as Truth.
The apparition confronting the dreamer in the haunted wood--the thing so like, yet so unlike his mother--was horrible
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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