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dreaming

dream
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [dreem]
    • /drim/
    • /driːm/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [dreem]
    • /drim/

Definitions of dreaming word

  • noun dreaming (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines. 1
  • verb without object dreaming to have a dream. 1
  • verb without object dreaming to indulge in daydreams or reveries: He dreamed about vacation plans when he should have been working. 1
  • verb without object dreaming to think or conceive of something in a very remote way (usually followed by of): I wouldn't dream of asking them. 1
  • verb with object dreaming to see or imagine in sleep or in a vision. 1
  • verb with object dreaming to imagine as if in a dream; fancy; suppose. 1

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Origin of dreaming

First appearance:

before 1200
One of the 9% oldest English words
1200-50; Middle English dreem, Old English drēam joy, mirth, gladness, cognate with Old Saxon drōm mirth, dream, Old Norse draumr, Old High German troum dream; modern sense first recorded in ME but presumably also current in Old English, as in Old Saxon

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Parts of speech for Dreaming

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

dreaming popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

dreaming usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for dreaming

adj dreaming

  • absent-minded — Someone who is absent-minded forgets things or does not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else.

adjective dreaming

  • musing — absorbed in thought; meditative.
  • daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams

noun dreaming

  • conception — A conception of something is an idea that you have of it in your mind.
  • phantasy — fantasy.
  • dreaminess — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
  • reverie — a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.

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