Synonyms for dreamer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dree-mer
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdri mər


Définition of dreamer

Origin :
  • c.1300, "one who dreams," agent noun from dream (v.). Meaning "idler, daydreamer" emerged by 1530s. Old English dreamere meant "musician."
  • noun visionary
Example sentences :
  • A big child, a dreamer of dreams in the skin of a terrible sectarian!
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • If you meet him, you will find him a dreamer and a theorist.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
  • One of them, a young man with the face of a dreamer, was speaking.
  • Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
  • It was the pure love of the idealist and the dreamer––it was divine.
  • Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
  • With its keen sensitive-ness and its undefined melancholy it was a dreamer's face.
  • Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
  • The dreamer wondered; and something drew his attention to the wolf-man.
  • Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • The poet, the artist, the dreamer that harnesses his mind—all can contemplate.
  • Extract from : « The Prodigal Returns » by Lilian Staveley
  • I fancy that, in his way, he was as great a dreamer as myself.
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • I want him to do something, to be something besides a dreamer!
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • Joseph the Dreamer was half stunned by this second blow to his dreams.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

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