dreaming

dream-ing · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    Present participle of dream; experiencing images and sensations during sleep.

  2. 2.

    Imagining or hoping for something desirable.

  3. 3.

    (noun) The activity or process of having dreams.

Phrases & expressions

  • •
    keep dreaming — used to suggest something is unlikely to happen
  • •
    dreaming on — continuing to hope unrealistically
  • •
    the Dreaming — in Aboriginal Australian culture, the creation time

Related words

See also: dream, dreamer, dreams
Synonyms: envisioning, fantasizing, imagining

Etymology

Present participle of dream, from Old English drēam ("joy, music").