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dream

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(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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nirvana

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name of the game

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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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something else

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dream

Synonyms 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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hallucinate

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“Dream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dream. Accessed 24 Jan. 2021.

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