Synonyms for dream

Most common

ambition · aspiration · vision · fantasy

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Antonyms

reality, nightmare, substance

All antonyms of dream →

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

   Crazy things like that only happen in dreams.

2. n. 2

   A hope or wish.

   This year I fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting the South Pacific.

3. v. 1

   To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.

   Although people primarily dream during the REM phase of sleeping, they can dream during non-REM sleep as well.

Related words

Word family

dreamboat dreamchild dreamery dreamish dreamland dreamlike dreamscape dreamware

Phrases

dream up pipe dream wet dream dream on dream board dream home dream house dream life

Forms

Plural

dreams → ambitions, aspirations, visions, fantasies…

Past participle

dreamt
e.g. dreamt → daydreamt, reveried, stargazed, woolgathered…

Example sentences

• vision Her glasses let her see with twenty-twenty vision.
• fantasy In his fantasy, he imagined he was a famous writer.
• heaven May your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
• muse "Novels? I hate novels." Oh muse, forgive her blasphemy.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

muse¹

5 letters

fancy², vapor²

6 letters

vision², heaven², bubble², aspire², trance¹, vapour, vagary³, sweven

7 letters

imagine³, fantasy³, chimera³, conceit², reverie³

8 letters

ambition³, illusion³, delusion³, envision³, daydream², phantasm³, stargaze, dreamery

10 letters

aspiration⁴, woolgather

13 letters

hallucination⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fancy² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

rêve

Italiano

sogno

Español

sueño

Deutsch

Traum

Català

somni