1 [C] a series of images, events and feelings that happen in your mind while you are asleep:
I had a vivid dream about my old school. * I thought someone came into the bedroom, but it was just a dream. * 'Good night. Sweet dreams.' * Don't think about it. You'll only give yourself bad dreams.
compareNIGHTMARE
seealsoWETDREAM
2 [C] a wish to have or be sth, especially one that seems difficult to achieve:
Her lifelong dream was to be a famous writer. * He wanted to be rich but it was an impossible dream. * If I win, it will be a dream come true. * She tried to turn her dream of running her own business into reality. * a dream car / house / job * If he thinks it's easy to get a job he's living in a dream world. * I've finally found the man of my dreams. * a chance to fulfil a childhood dream * It was the end of all my hopes and dreams.
seealsoPIPEDREAM
3 [sing.] a state of mind or a situation in which things do not seem real or part of normal life:
She walked around in a dream all day.
seealsoDAYDREAM, WETDREAM
4 [sing.] (informal) a beautiful or wonderful person or thing:
That meal was an absolute dream.
IDIOMS
go / work like a dream
1 to work very well:
My new car goes like a dream.
2 to happen without problems, in the way that you had planned:
The wedding celebrations went like a dream.
in your dreams (spoken) used to tell sb that sth they are hoping for is not likely to happen:
'I'll be a manager before I'm 30.' 'In your dreams.'
like a bad dream (of a situation) so unpleasant that you cannot believe it is true:
In broad daylight the events of the night before seemed like a bad dream.
moreatWILDadj.
verb (dreamt, dreamt ) or (dreamed, dreamed)
1 ~ (of / about sb/sth) to experience a series of images, events and feelings in your mind while you are asleep:
[V] Did I talk in my sleep? I must have been dreaming. * I dreamt about you last night. * [VN] Did it really happen or did I just dream it? * [V(that)] I dreamt (that) I got the job.
2 ~ (of / about sth)
