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- [dey-dreem]
- /ˈdeɪˌdrim/
- /ˈdeɪ.driːm/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [dey-dreem]
- /ˈdeɪˌdrim/
Definitions of daydream word
- countable noun daydream A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen. 3
- noun daydream a pleasant dreamlike fantasy indulged in while awake; idle reverie 3
- noun daydream a pleasant scheme or wish that is unlikely to be fulfilled; pipe dream 3
- verb daydream to have daydreams; indulge in idle fantasy 3
- noun daydream a pleasant, dreamlike thinking or wishing; reverie 3
- noun daydream a pleasing but visionary notion or scheme 3
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Origin of daydream
First appearance:
before 1675 One of the 48% oldest English words
First recorded in 1675-85; day + dream
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Parts of speech for Daydream
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
daydream popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
daydream usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for daydream
noun daydream
- reverie — a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
- wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- phantasm — an apparition or specter.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
verb daydream
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- fantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- conceive — If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
- moon — Sun Myung [suhn myuhng] /sʌn myʌŋ/ (Show IPA), 1920–2012, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church.
- muse — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
Antonyms for daydream
noun daydream
- dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
- hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- reality — the state or quality of being real.
- actuality — Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined.
- certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
verb daydream
- concentrate — If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
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