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dream noun [C] (HOPE)
someone's dream is to do something Her dream is to play for England.
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- aimOur aim in protesting is to raise awareness of the unfairness of the system.
- goalMy goal in life has always been to be financially independent.
- objectiveOne of my objectives for this year is to increase sales.
- targetIf you meet your sales targets you will receive a generous bonus.
- dreamWhen I was growing up my dream was to perform in front of millions of people.
- hopeMy hope is that there will be some kind of positive outcome to this process.
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- Their dream to bring computers and ordinary people together was nothing less than revolutionary.
- To win the Olympic gold medal was the realization of his life's dream.
- Ever since she was a child her dream has been to teach school.
- It was his boyhood dream to become a film director.
- After all the problems I'd had getting pregnant, Oliver's birth was a dream come true.
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Idioms
dream verb (HOPE)
never dreamed We never dreamed (that) this could happen.
dream on informal
"Watch. All I have to do is wink at her, and she'll come over here." "Dream on, Dave!"
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of dream from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
dream | American Dictionary
dream noun [C] (SLEEP)
In the dream I had last night, someone was chasing me, but I didn’t know who it was.
dream noun [C] (HOPE)
It was his dream to be a dancer.
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dream verb (SEE IMAGES)
dream verb (HOPE)
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(Definition of dream from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of dream
dream
We were able to visit places that we had never been able to see and never dreamed that we would see.
My memories are fresh and vivid as some of the more powerful dreams that come to me in the dark before morning.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
What are we to do with the visual denizens of luminous dreams?
He responds to this provocation with an exposition of the authority of dreams that is staggering by contrast.
Chauntecleer is only an interpreter - of the heavens, of dreams, of previous textual authority.
Utopian dreaming did not banish waking nightmares, but made those nightmares seem so routine and familiar as to impoverish dreaming.
Older priests had fewer transcendent experiences and less trust in dreams and imagination than younger priests.
In this quotation, dreams of flying provide a self-legitimating text and a plenitude of images.
By the 7th century, then, the three principal approaches to dreams had all been clearly formulated.
He argued that such a philosophical position could not cope with the phenomena of dreams and especially hypnosis.
His work on dreams and symbolism has proved valuable in clinical work.
His point is that astrology is less of a threat than is a nation, or statesmen, without dreams.
Not only "less guarded" words but "livelier shapes" enhance the fancy-work of refashioning individual patriots and collective dreams.
Rather, dreaming appears to be a consequence of various forms of cerebral activation during sleep.
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Collocations with dream
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He cast a dark shadow over the country's sense of well-being, a bad dream that would not go away.
Her childhood dream was to become a flight attendant, but at the age of 16, she was discovered on the street by a fashion editor.
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