dream
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Sense: Noun: fond hope
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hope Collocations, desire Collocations, wish Collocations, aspiration, goal Collocations, ideal Collocations, purpose Collocations, ambition Collocations, intent Collocations, intention Collocations, aim Collocations, aim in life, plan Collocations, want Collocations, point Collocations, object Collocations, objective Collocations, target Collocations
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Sense: Noun: unattainable idea
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chimera, fantasy Collocations, wishful thinking, wish Collocations, pipe dream, delusion Collocations, illusion Collocations, will-o'-the-wisp, fancy Collocations, flight of fancy , pie in the sky , vain hope, daydream, figment of your imagination
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Sense: Noun: good thing or experience
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beaut , beauty Collocations, peach Collocations , knockout , jim-dandy , dandy , doozy , hummer , the cat's meow , the bee's knees , crackerjack , humdinger
Sense: Noun: mental pictures
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vision Collocations, illusion Collocations, image Collocations, nightmare Collocations, apparition, hallucination, trip Collocations , daydream, fantasy Collocations, imagination, wraith, mirage, trance, mind's eye, specter, spectre
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Sense: Verb: have visions, esp. during sleep or fever
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have a dream, have a bad dream, have nightmares, have flashbacks, have visions, hallucinate, trip Collocations , see things , conjure up, picture Collocations, imagine Collocations, envision Collocations, envisage Collocations, visualize, visualise , fancy Collocations
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wake Collocations, come to, wake up, waken, snap out of a dream, jolt awake, start from a dream, awaken
Sense: Verb: entertain yourself with imagined things
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fantasize, fantasise , imagine Collocations, daydream, fancy Collocations, picture Collocations, have notions, indulge in reveries, conceive Collocations, conjure up, be up in the clouds, build castles in the air, let your mind wander, create Collocations, visualize, visualise , muse Collocations
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stop dreaming, come back down to earth, be realistic
Sense: Verb: conceive mentally - often followed by 'of'
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think of, consider Collocations, conceive Collocations, believe Collocations, suppose Collocations, imagine Collocations, countenance
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rule out, block out, draw a blank on
Sense: Modifier: ideal
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