dreamer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English dremer, dremere, dremare, equivalent to dream + -er. Cognate with West Frisian dreamer (“dreamer”), Saterland Frisian Dröömer (“dreamer”), Dutch dromer (“dreamer”), German Träumer (“dreamer”), Danish drømmer (“dreamer”), Swedish drömmare (“dreamer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɹimɚ/, [d͡ʒɹimɚ]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɹiːmə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]dreamer (plural dreamers)
- One who dreams.
- Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.
- 1971, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “Imagine”:
- You may say I'm a dreamer/ But I'm not the only one/ I hope someday you'll join us/ And the world will live as one.
- 2015, Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson, Totally Charmed: Demons, Whitelighters And the Power of Three, →ISBN:
- Eighties witches were not the patchouli-dipped, lovebead-wearing, back-to-the-earth dreamers of the seventies.
- Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae.
- A swallow-wing puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]one who dreams
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someone whose beliefs are far from realistic
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fish of the family Oneirodidae
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swallow-wing puffbird
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Further reading
[edit]- “dreamer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “dreamer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- en:Anglerfish
- en:Piciforms