dreamer

See also: DREAMer

English

Etymology

From Middle English dremer, dremere, dremare, equivalent to dream +‎ -er. Cognate with West Frisian dreamer (“dreamer”), Saterland Frisian Dröömer (“dreamer”), Dutch dromer (“dreamer”), German Träumer (“dreamer”), Danish drømmer (“dreamer”), Swedish drömmare (“dreamer”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹimɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹiːmə/
• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun

dreamer (plural dreamers)

1. One who dreams.
2. Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.
   • 1971, John Lennon, Imagine

     You may say I'm a dreamer/ But I'm not the only one/ I hope someday you'll join us/ And the world will live as one.

3. Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae.
4. swallow-wing puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)

Related terms

• daydreamer

Translations

one who dreams

• Albanian: ëndërrues (sq) m, ëndërruese f
• Arabic: حَالِم‎ m (ḥālim)
• Catalan: somiador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 做夢的人, 做梦的人 (zuòmèng de rén)

• Czech: snící m
• Finnish: haaveilija (fi), uneksija (fi)
• French: rêveur (fr) m, rêveuse (fr) f
• Galician: soñador m
• German: Träumer (de) m, Träumerin f
• Greek: ονειροπόλος (el) m (oneiropólos)

• Istriot: sugnadur m
• Italian: sognatore (it) m
• Latin: somniator m, somniatrix f
• Lithuanian: svajotojas m, svajotoja f
• Norman: rêveux m, songeux m
• Polish: marzyciel (pl) m
• Portuguese: sonhador (pt) m
• Romanian: visător (ro) m, visătoare (ro) f
• Russian: мечта́тель (ru) m (mečtátelʹ), мечта́тельница (ru) f (mečtátelʹnica)
• Slovene: sanjáč m
• Spanish: soñador (es) m, soñadora (es) f

someone whose beliefs are far from realistic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空想家 (zh) (kōngxiǎngjiā)

• Czech: snílek m
• Finnish: haaveilija (fi)
• Hungarian: álmodozó (hu)
• Japanese: 夢想家 (むそうか, musōka)
• Lithuanian: svajoklis m, svajoklė f, svajotojas m, svajotoja f

• Maori: waewae-kai-kapua
• Polish: marzyciel (pl) m
• Portuguese: sonhador (pt) m
• Russian: мечта́тель (ru) m (mečtátelʹ), мечта́тельница (ru) f (mečtátelʹnica), фантазёр (ru) m (fantazjór), фантазёрка (ru) f (fantazjórka)
• Serbo-Croatian: sanjar (sh) m
• Swedish: drömmare (sv) c

fish of the family Oneirodidae

• Czech: břichatka (cs) f

• Finnish: torkkujakrotti

swallow-wing puffbird

• Finnish: pääskylaiskuri (fi)

ladybird — see ladybird

Further reading

• dreamer at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dreamer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• rearmed, redream