dreamer
Americannoun
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dreamers
plural
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a person who dreams.
The dream provides insights into the interior life of the dreamer, or so say many psychotherapists.
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a person who lives in a world of fantasy; one who is impractical and unrealistic.
The phrase "economically illiterate" has long been used to smear leftists as unrealistic utopian dreamers.
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a person whose ideas or projects are considered audacious or highly speculative; visionary.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was considered a dreamer—and what a wonderful dream it is!
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Usually Dreamer Sometimes DREAMer a person who qualifies for DACA or the Dream Act.
noun
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a person who dreams habitually
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a person who lives in or escapes to a world of fantasy or illusion; escapist
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archaic a prophet; visionary
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Etymology
Origin of dreamer
First recorded in 1250–1300; dreamer def. 4 first recorded in 2010–15; Middle English; see dream, -er 1 ( def. )
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He was a dreamer; he was looking forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"I say to people I am a quiet dreamer," says Awoniyi, who was born in Ilorin, Nigeria.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
With “Disclosure Day,” it’s clear that this unprecedented, Earth-shattering event brought oft-pondered questions about empathy and humanism back to the forefront for cinema’s great dreamer.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
"I've always been a dreamer, but I could never have imagined that an honor like this would come to a working-class English soccer player like me," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
My grandfather may have been an imposing and learned man, but he was an idealist and a dreamer.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
He said the multiple award-winning artist had "opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Some of the homeowners that list are also “dreamers, and we have a lot of dreamers right now,” he added, because they insist on selling at the price their neighbors sold at three years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
On Thursday in Boston they meet again, but this time Morocco aren't returning as football's dreamers.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Before her death in 1993, Mabel McKay — one of the last living dreamers of the Pomo Indian people — shared a prophecy while driving through the Sonoma hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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