wet dream
wet dream noun: an erotic dream (imaginary vision while sleeping) bringing the sleeper to orgasm.
Noun
wet dream (plural wet dreams)
- An erotic dream (imaginary vision while sleeping) bringing the sleeper to orgasm.
- His mother is having an affair with the man next door, is reading Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch—which spawns Adrian's first wet dream.1985, David Lewis, "British playwright makes a mountain out of a Mole" (review of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 9 Jan., page E22
- The orgasm in such a dream.
- An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.
- Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream.1986 October 24, Liam Lacey, “Same old irresistible Seeger”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page D11
- The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years.2007, Addy Dugdale, "Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years," gizmodo.com, 2 Oct
Verb
wet dream (third-person singular simple present wet dreams, present participle wet dreaming, simple past and past participle wet dreamed or wet dreamt)
- To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way).
- He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […]1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 99
- […] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them,1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York: Warner Books, published 1979, page 85
- To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually.
- […] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter, New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136
- […] she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.2010, Paul Burman, The Grease Monkey’s Tale, London: PaperBooks, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 71
wet dream meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Gujarati
wet dream in Hindi
- erotic dream
- स्वप्नदोष svapnadoṣ
wet dream in Tamil
- இந்திரியக்கனவு
wet dream in Urdu
- wet dream
- احتلام ihtilām
wet dream in Gujarati
- wet dream, nocturnal emission
- સ્વપ્નદોષ svapnadoṣ
More languagesFewer languages
- wet dream in Indonesian
- mimpi basah
Synonyms of wet dream
Forms of wet dream
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wet dreams |
| alternative form (nonstandard, rare) | wetdream |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wet dreams |
| present participle | wet dreaming |
| past participle | wet dreamed |
| past | wet dreamed |
| past participle | wet dreamt |
| past | wet dreamt |
Questions about wet dream
- What does wet dream mean?
- Wet dream means an erotic dream (imaginary vision while sleeping) bringing the sleeper to orgasm.
- What is wet dream in Hindi?
- Wet dream in Hindi is स्वप्नदोष (svapnadoṣ). See Wet dream meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wet dream?
- Wet dream can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of wet dream?
- The plural of wet dream is wet dreams.
Words near wet dream in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wet dream (page history and authors); wet dream (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); احتلام (Urdu) (page history and authors); સ્વપ્નદોષ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). 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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