📒 a series of images, events and feelings that happen in your mind while you are asleep
- I had a really weird dream last night.
- I thought someone came into the bedroom, but it was just a dream.
- ‘Goodnight. Sweet dreams.’
📒 a wish to have or be something, 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.
- a chance to fulfil a childhood dream
📒 a state of mind or a situation in which things do not seem real or part of normal life
- in a dream She walked around in a dream all day.
- She found herself standing in front of the crowded hall and making her speech, as if in a dream.
- As if slowly emerging from a dream, she raised her head.
📒 a beautiful or wonderful person or thing
- That meal was an absolute dream.
📒 far more, better, etc. than you could ever have imagined or hoped for
📒 to work very well
- My new car goes like a dream.
📒 to happen without problems, in the way that you had planned
- The wedding celebrations went like a dream.
📒 used to tell somebody that something they are hoping for is not likely to happen
- ‘I'll be a manager before I'm 30.’ ‘In your dreams.’
📒 so unpleasant that you cannot believe it is true
- In broad daylight the events of the night before seemed like a bad dream.
📒 to have a way of life that seems perfect
- With her own TV show and a flat in Paris, she is living the dream.