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

View gallery - 7 images You could be forgiven for thinking that this extraordinary design was dreamed up for the set of some kind of sci-fi movie. — New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2026

The other, more imaginative name the team had dreamed up was BlackBerry. — HubSpot, 31 July 2026

The grounds, meanwhile, were dreamed up by landscape designer Raina Weber. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026

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

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