dreaming : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dreaming	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dreaming
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dreaming n imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" Synonym(s): dream, dreaming a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" Synonym(s): dream, dreaming
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed}or {Dreamt} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS. dr[?]man, dr[?]man, to rejoice. See {Dream}, n.] 1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. 2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. --Keble. They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. --Locke.