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Synonyms & Antonyms of dream
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
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
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2
something that one hopes or intends to accomplish
- my dream is to open my own restaurant
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3
something very good of its kind
- the Alaskan cruise exceeded their wildest expectations—it was a dream of a vacation
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- beaut,
- beauty,
- bee's knees,
- cat's meow,
- corker,
- crackerjack
- (also crackajack),
- daisy,
- dandy,
- dilly,
- doozy
- (or doozie also doozer),
- honey,
- hot stuff,
- humdinger,
- hummer,
- jim-dandy,
- knockout,
- lollapalooza,
- lulu
- [slang],
- nifty,
- peach,
- pip,
- pippin,
- ripper,
- ripsnorter,
- snorter,
- sockdolager
- (or sockdologer),
- standout,
- sweetheart
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dream
verbSynonyms of dream (Entry 2 of 2)
to form a mental picture of
- I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific
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The first known use of dream was in the 13th century
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