dream up

verb

dreamed up or dreamt up; dreaming up; dreams up

transitive verb

: to form in the mind : devise, concoct

Examples of dream up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Roos and Bekker have dreamed up Yarlington Lodge as a house where there’s plenty of room to spread out and do your own thing but also enough communal areas so everyone can drift back together at the end of the day. — Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026

Kempinski Hotel Cancún Set on Mexico’s iconic Caribbean coast on the Yucatán Peninsula, where the midnight-blue color of the water seems dreamt up by Crayola, Kempinski Hotel Cancún is pure luxury. — Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

But even Robinson Crusoe couldn’t dream up the world’s largest standalone overwater villa. — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 16 July 2026

What matchups are the TV suits dreaming up for the CFP semifinals? — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dream up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup