daydream
noun
a reverie indulged in while awake.
daydreamer
-
a word derived from
daydream.
Example Sentences
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A self-professed daydreamer, Lynch burst onto the scene via the midnight movie circuit with 1977's Eraserhead.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
As a child growing up in Southern California, Octavia Butler was a daydreamer who found comfort in the books she read.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2022
In death, she became the patron saint of every coastal cool girl, every exhausted mother, every daydreamer of plane tickets, every chaser of her next broken heart.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
Colin is a guileless daydreamer, too manipulable and superstitious to make a believable teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2018
He frowned and saw where he’d messed up: he was a daydreamer.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
