daydream
/ˈdeɪdɹiːm/
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sometimes[ˈdeɪd͡ʒɹiːm]
daydream noun: a spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
Noun
daydream (plural daydreams)
- A spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
- With Free Guy, Reynolds gets just a little more in touch with his Carrey side via nothing less than his own version of The Truman Show, shorn of its daydream dread and rocketed into the age of Fortnite.2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2022
Verb
daydream (third-person singular simple present daydreams, present participle daydreaming, simple past and past participle daydreamt or daydreamed)
- To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
- Stop daydreaming and get back to work!
daydream meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
daydream in Hindi
- a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- दिनी-स्वप्न dinī-svapna
daydream in Tamil
- a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- பகற்கனவு pakaṟkaṉavu, பகற்கனா pakaṟkaṉā
- to have such a series of thoughts
- பகற்கனவு காண் pakaṟkaṉavu kāṇ, பகற்கனா காண் pakaṟkaṉā kāṇ
daydream in Marathi
- दिवास्वप्न
daydream in Bengali
- দিবাস্বপ্ন
More languagesFewer languages
- daydream in Telugu
- పగటికల pagaṭikala
- daydream in Malayalam
- ദിവാസ്വപ്നം, പകൽക്കിനാവ്, പകൽസ്വപ്നം, മനോരാജ്യം
- daydream in Kannada
- ಪಗಲ್ಗನಸು, ಹಗಲುಗನಸು, ಎಚ್ಚರಗನಸು, ಕಲ್ಪನಾರಾಜ್ಯ
- daydream in Gujarati
- દિવાસ્વપ્ન
- daydream in Odia
- ଦିବାସ୍ବପ୍ନ
- daydream in Nepali
- दिवासपना divāsapanā
- daydream in Arabic
- حُلْم يَقَظَة ḥulm yaqaẓa
- daydream in Malay
- angan-angan, berangan
- daydream in Thai
- ฝันเฟื่อง făn-fêuang, ฝันกลางวัน
- daydream in Vietnamese
- sự mơ màng, mơ mộng
Examples of daydream in a sentence
- This Toronto group plays multitextured instrumentals that veer from clangy turbulence to pastoral, acoustic daydreams.
- Collective daydreaming shut down when we boarded the Soviet-made airliner in Korea.
- And throughout most of his days and nights, daydreamed about Brady's mother, liking everything about her.
Forms of daydream
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | daydreams |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | daydreams |
| present participle | daydreaming |
| past participle | daydreamt |
| past | daydreamt |
| past participle | daydreamed |
| past | daydreamed |
Origin of daydream
From day + dream. Compare West Frisian deidream (“daydream”), Dutch dagdroom (“daydream”), German Tagtraum (“daydream”), Swedish dagdröm (“daydream”), Icelandic dagdraumur (“daydream”).
Words formed from daydream
Phrases with daydream
Questions about daydream
- What does daydream mean?
- Daydream means a spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
- What is daydream in Hindi?
- Daydream in Hindi is दिनी-स्वप्न (dinī-svapna). See Daydream meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is daydream?
- Daydream can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce daydream?
- Daydream is pronounced /ˈdeɪdɹiːm/.
- What is the plural of daydream?
- The plural of daydream is daydreams.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: daydream (page history and authors); daydream (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); daydream (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); daydream (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); daydream (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); daydream (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); daydream (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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