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Meaning of dream

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dream
      n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
           sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: {dream},
           {dreaming}]
      2: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
         dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: {dream},
         {dreaming}]
      3: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"
         [syn: {ambition}, {aspiration}, {dream}]
      4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the
         opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of
         the universe" [syn: {pipe dream}, {dream}]
      5: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from
         reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
      6: someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
      v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: {dream},
           {daydream}, {woolgather}, {stargaze}]
      2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He
         dreamt a strange scene"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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