dreamer
[dree-mer]
- a person who dreams.
- a person who lives in a world of fantasy; one who is impractical and unrealistic.
- a person whose ideas or projects are considered audacious or highly speculative; visionary.
Origin of dreamer
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Examples from the Web for dreamer
Contemporary Examples
He was a dreamer, an idealist, grounded in the reality he observed around him.
Then came Obama, handsome rider of unicorns and dreamer of hope and change.
Allan Mayer, American Apparel's co-chair, seemingly laughed at Charney's plea, labeling him "a dreamer."
American Apparel’s Dov Charney Speaks for First Time Since FiringThe Fashion Beast Team
June 24, 2014
Secretly, however, Marie pines for Emil Bergson, a dreamer and intellect who seems ill-suited to life on a farm.
The dreamer tries to help, and fends off a man who is about to accost her with lecherous intentions.
Historical Examples
A big child, a dreamer of dreams in the skin of a terrible sectarian!
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
If you meet him, you will find him a dreamer and a theorist.
Jennie Baxter, JournalistRobert Barr
One of them, a young man with the face of a dreamer, was speaking.
A Breath of Prairie and other storiesWill Lillibridge
It was the pure love of the idealist and the dreamer––it was divine.
A Breath of Prairie and other storiesWill Lillibridge
With its keen sensitive-ness and its undefined melancholy it was a dreamer's face.
Stories of a Western TownOctave Thanet
dreamer
- a person who dreams habitually
- a person who lives in or escapes to a world of fantasy or illusion; escapist
- archaic a prophet; visionary
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Word Origin and History for dreamer
n.
c.1300, "one who dreams," agent noun from dream (v.). Meaning "idler, daydreamer" emerged by 1530s. Old English dreamere meant "musician."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper