dream
verb/driːm/
/driːm/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they dream | /driːm/ /driːm/ |
| he / she / it dreams | /driːmz/ /driːmz/ |
| past simple dreamt | /dremt/ /dremt/ |
| past participle dreamt | /dremt/ /dremt/ |
| past simple dreamed | /driːmd/ /driːmd/ |
| past participle dreamed | /driːmd/ /driːmd/ |
| -ing form dreaming | /ˈdriːmɪŋ/ /ˈdriːmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to experience a series of images, events and feelings in your mind while you are asleep
- Did I talk in my sleep? I must have been dreaming.
- dream about somebody/something I dreamed about you last night.
- dream of somebody/something I keep dreaming of my old school.
- dream something Had it really happened or had he just dreamt it?
- dream (that)… I dreamt (that) I got the job.
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- [intransitive, transitive] to imagine and think about something that you would like to happen
- It might never happen, but I can dream can't I?
- dream of/about something It was the kind of trip most of us only dream about.
- dream of/about doing something She dreams of running her own business.
- I wouldn't dream of going without you (= I would never go without you).
- dream (that)… I never dreamt (that) I’d actually get the job.
- dream something Who'd have dreamt it? They're getting married.
Extra ExamplesTopics Successa2- As a child she always dreamed of working with animals.
- People have long dreamed of an egalitarian society.
- I always dreamed that one day I'd be famous.
- The people still dreamed about peace returning to their country.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- always
- often
- never
- …
- wouldn’t
- about
- of
Word OriginMiddle English: of Germanic origin, related to Dutch droom and German Traum, and probably also to Old English drēam ‘joy, music’.
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