Another word for dream
dream
n.
Mental pictures
nightmare, apparition, hallucination, vision, daydream, fantasy, wraith, specter, incubus, image, illusion, mirage, trance, idea, impression, reverie, romance, dream life, evidence of the unconscious, flight of fancy, castle in the air, castle in Spain, air castle; see also fantasy 2, illusion 1, thought 2, vision 3, 4.
A fond hope
Unattainable idea
chimera, bubble, will-o'-the-wisp, pipe dream*; see sense 1; fantasy 2, illusion 1.
dream
v.
To have visions, usually during sleep or fever
be delirious, have nightmares, see in a vision, have flashes, hallucinate, fancy, visualize, envisage; see also visualize.
To entertain or delude oneself with imagined things
fancy, fantasize, daydream, indulge in reveries, imagine, conceive, have notions, conjure up, create, picture, visualize, muse, stargaze, moon, idealize, be up in the clouds, be on cloud nine, build castles in the air, build castles in Spain, go woolgathering, be moonstruck, let one's mind wander, talk through one's hat*, pipe-dream*, blow bubbles*, search for the rainbow's end, look for the pot of gold; see also imagine 1.
To conceive mentally; usually used in the negative
think of, consider, believe, suppose; see assume 1, consider 3.
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Another word for dream
An illusory mental image:
daydream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See realA fantastic, impracticable plan or desire:
bubble, castle in the air, chimera, fantasy, illusion, pipe dream, rainbow. See realA fervent hope, wish, or goal:
aspiration, ideal. See hope
To experience dreams or daydreams:
daydream, fantasize, muse1, woolgather. See realTo have a fervent hope or aspiration:
aspire. Idioms: reach for the stars, set one's heart on. See seek
To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving:
concoct, contrive, devise, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up, think up. (Informal) cook up. Idiom: come up with. See make
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