(n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
(n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the ketamine group, 36% of the patients complained of unpleasant dreams.
(2) That's why the big dreams have come from the smaller candidates such as the radical left's Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
(3) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
(4) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(5) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(6) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(7) "I am doing the best for my child, helping her strive towards her dreams.
(8) According to Hairullo, it was always Nazarov’s dream to live lavishly and easily.
(9) It seems like an awfully long way from the ground.” He added: “When I was younger, I dreamed of being an astronaut, but I also wanted to be a policeman or a firebreather.
(10) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(11) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(12) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
(13) I met a mum there who said to me – this is what I’ve dreamed of for my child... ...proper uniforms, high standards... ...this is going to give my child a good start in life.
(14) A three-dimensional model of adult dreaming styles shows a close correspondence with other models representing frameworks of waking experience and interpersonal behavior.
(15) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(16) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
(17) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole,’ his sister said.
(18) Indeed, some of his ideas for fixing this broken American dream echo Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s – most notably a $1tn investment in public infrastructure, which Sanders claims would create 16m new jobs.
(19) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(20) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
Slumber
Definition:
(v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
(v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.
(v. t.) To lay to sleep.
(v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.
(n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The word "fiasco" spends most of the year slumbering undisturbed, but come the exam results and it's everywhere.
(2) Westminster slumbers in recess, voters are on holiday or reeling from the latesthorrors of Isis – and Nick Clegg tersely announces Lord Rennard has been reinstated as a party member , all disciplinary action miraculously evaporated.
(3) Meanwhile, Europe continues to slumber as it encounters jihad.
(4) In the light of such events, it somehow seems appropriate to imagine the Earth beneath our feet as a slumbering giant that tosses and turns periodically in response to various pokes and prods.
(5) Now a unique conjuncture of economic and political developments has created an opportunity for Eurasia to emerge from its historical slumbers.
(6) In the week that the foreign secretary has said that it’s time to “move on” from Snowden, this slumbering scrutineer has finally got around to acknowledging the systematic trawling of web traffic and call records.
(7) The government has "finally woken up from its post-election slumber", notes Caroline de la Soujeole , from investment bank Seymour Pierce, "and is open for business … determined to find new, efficient ways of delivering services rather than cutting them".
(8) Cosby, a sheen black labrador retriever cross and Blunkett’s sixth guide dog , rouses slightly in his basket and retreats to slumber.
(9) It makes me recall the time I put a question to the director Abel Ferrara , who proceeded to slip into a dense and restful slumber before I had finished speaking.
(10) We can't see much, apart from raised legs, the back one woman's head, clenched hands and a slumbering cat.
(11) How long will it be until England’s great and neglected northern regions too awaken from their slumbers?
(12) I know they'll all be running half-marathons in their 70s and teaching their grandchildren how to hang-glide in the Andes while I'm being fed soup in a day hall and singing the Harry Hood song in my demented slumbers.
(13) To say Gestede shook things up a bit would be an understatement and, equally important, the substitute striker brought the previously slumbering Jordan Ayew to life.
(14) Once roused from her slumbers, Nemesis would mount a two-wheeled chariot drawn by griffins (Sturmey and Archer) and, brandishing an array of carpet tacks, set out on her mission to destroy cyclists who sneered.
(15) Me and my friends would dance to the soundtrack at slumber parties.
(16) Scientists in the US claim to have a new explanation for why we sleep: in the hours spent slumbering, a rubbish disposal service swings into action that cleans up waste in the brain.
(17) At the other end, United’s defence slumbered and Jeremain Lens was allowed to hit a shot at goal that David de Gea saved well.
(18) The massive relocation, slated for completion next year, will involve darting the elephants from a helicopter, hoisting the slumbering animals by crane and loading them in crates on to trucks for a ride of about 185 miles (300km) to Malawi’s Nkhotakota wildlife reserve.
(19) We’ve won Hove!” Blair is said to have said to colleagues, or to a slumbering Cherie.
(20) Instead they were becalmed, much like the slumbering outfit Van Gaal so often sends out.