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as in daydream
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
his invention is only a dream right now, but someday it might be a reality
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as in goal
something that one hopes or intends to accomplish
my dream is to open my own restaurant
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as in beauty
something very good of its kind
the Alaskan cruise exceeded their wildest expectations—it was a dream of a vacation
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as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of
I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific
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Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 5 Sep. 2024
Equal parts health-food store, apothecary, and grocer, Centro Botanico is a wellness-lovers dream, with the freshest fruit, bouquets of drying herbs, and Italian tisane line Vegetal Progress.
—Maria Geyman, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
Okla Jones, Essence, 3 Sep. 2024
Jacques Audiard's latest — starring Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, and Karla Sofía Gascón — centers on a cartel leader seeking to transition to the woman he's always dreamed of becoming.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
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Noun
What a strange dream all these years later to work with them.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 5 Sep. 2024
Equal parts health-food store, apothecary, and grocer, Centro Botanico is a wellness-lovers dream, with the freshest fruit, bouquets of drying herbs, and Italian tisane line Vegetal Progress.
—Maria Geyman, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
Verb
How to Die Alone – (9/13) Starring Natasha Rothwell, How to Die Alone follows Mel, a JFK airport employee who’s never been in love and forgotten how to dream, until an accidental brush with death catapults her on a journey to finally take flight and start living by any means necessary.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 3 Sep. 2024
Jacques Audiard's latest — starring Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, and Karla Sofía Gascón — centers on a cartel leader seeking to transition to the woman he's always dreamed of becoming.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Dream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dream. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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