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Grammar : Verb
Spell : dreem
Phonetic Transcription : drim

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Définition of dream up

Origin :
  • mid-13c. in the sense "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind" (also as a verb), probably related to Old Norse draumr, Danish drøm, Swedish dröm, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise," Old Frisian dram "dream," Dutch droom, Old High German troum, German traum "dream," perhaps from West Germanic *draugmas "deception, illusion, phantasm" (cf. Old Saxon bidriogan, Old High German triogan, German trügen "to deceive, delude," Old Norse draugr "ghost, apparition"). Possible cognates outside Germanic are Sanskrit druh- "seek to harm, injure," Avestan druz- "lie, deceive."
  • But Old English dream meant only "joy, mirth, noisy merriment," also "music." And much study has failed to prove that Old English dream is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Either the meaning of the word changed dramatically or "vision" was an unrecorded secondary Old English meaning of dream, or there are two separate words here. OED offers this theory: "It seems as if the presence of dream 'joy, mirth, music,' had caused dream 'dream' to be avoided, at least in literature, and swefn, lit. 'sleep,' to be substituted" ....
  • Words for "sleeping vision" in Old English were mæting and swefn. Old English swefn originally meant "sleep," as did a great many Indo-European "dream" nouns, e.g. Lithuanian sapnas, Old Church Slavonic sunu, and the Romanic words (French songe, Spanish sueño, Italian sogno all from Latin somnium (from PIE *swep-no-; cognate with Greek hypnos; see somnolence; Old English swefn is from the same root). Dream in the sense of "ideal or aspiration" is from 1931, from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" (1888).
  • verb concoct plan
Example sentences :
  • It needed a company like Tangiers Mutual to dream up a racket like that.
  • Extract from : « The Risk Profession » by Donald Edwin Westlake
  • Leave it to Chahda to dream up something like that, Rick thought.
  • Extract from : « The Caves of Fear » by John Blaine
  • And they expect us to do a job of work such as not even Thoth could dream up!
  • Extract from : « The Sky Is Falling » by Lester del Rey
  • Why she would look so provocative, so enchanting, so devastating, whatever other words you cared to dream up.
  • Extract from : « Thy Name Is Woman » by Bryce Walton
  • We'll sit up till three o'clock every morning and play bridge, and I'll stay in bed till noon, and dream up new stunts.
  • Extract from : « You Too Can Be A Millionaire » by Noel Miller Loomis
  • Benny followed Mr. Munroe like one in a dream up a broad flight of stairs, and into a large and luxuriantly furnished room.
  • Extract from : « Her Benny » by Silas Kitto Hocking
  • An actual world to match whatever kind of world you can dream up, let's say.
  • Extract from : « The Worlds of Joe Shannon » by Frank M. Robinson
  • It seemed as if we were in a wonderland country, and I had moved as in a dream up to the last hour of my walk with Louis.
  • Extract from : « The Harvest of Years » by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell
  • I didn't do it, and I can beat any case that half-assed ex-ambulance-chaser, Farnsworth, could dream up against me.
  • Extract from : « Murder in the Gunroom » by Henry Beam Piper

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