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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