dream

dream is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. transitive verb. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
6. noun. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

   "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

7. noun. a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality

   "he went about his work as if in a dream"

8. noun. a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

   "I had a dream about you last night"

   Synonyms: dreaming

9. noun. imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

   "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"

   Synonyms: dreaming

10. noun. a cherished desire

    "his ambition is to own his own business"

    Synonyms: ambition, aspiration

11. noun. someone or something wonderful

    "this dessert is a dream"

12. verb. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

    Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather

13. verb. experience while sleeping

    "She claims to never dream"

    "He dreamt a strange scene"

Synonyms

dreaming, ambition, aspiration, daydream, stargaze, woolgather

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dream:

armed, derma, drame, madre, ramed

Common word forms

dreams, dreamed, dreamer, dreamful, dreaming, dreamless

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for DREAM lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.