Entry Word: dream

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a series of often striking pictures created by the imagination during sleep <I had a dream last night about flying without any support>

Synonyms nightmare, vision

Related Words daydream, pipe dream, reverie (also revery); chimera, delusion, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantasm

2 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> — see fantasy 1
3 something that one hopes or intends to accomplish <my dream is to open my own restaurant> — see goal