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/drˈimər/ Listen

noun

Dreamer n.

One who dreams.

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

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Etymology of 'Dreamer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... separates him from eternity, is all through a romance, in the midst of that greater one, seen by us only as shadows—the negatives of some positives, perhaps, witnessed by eyes on the other side. I have always been tinged by something of the spirit of old Bruno, that dreamer, whose most real realities were no other than umbery forms—flakes of shadow—cast off by a central light from the real objects, of which we are the mere shadowy representatives. All the breathing, throbbing, active beings, who for two hundred years had run along ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various

... reflective man, a dreamer in the good sense of the term, and religiously minded. At the height of seeming good fortune he ...

— Pioneers of the Old South - A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, Volume 5 In - The Chronicles Of America Series • Mary Johnston

... death-rattle of the conquered? YES, IT MUST! [There follows an image too grotesquely indecent to be quoted.] Either one denies altogether the beneficent effect of Kultur upon humanity, and confesses oneself an Arcadian dreamer, or one allows to one's people the right of domination—in which case the might of the conqueror is the highest law of morality, before which the conquered must bow. Vae ...

— Gems (?) of German Thought • Various

... his eager embrace. Then under the image of the Great Dreamer who taught that Love is Illusion, that Affection is Error, that Desire but binds closer to the revolving Wheel they kissed fondly, passionately, like two faithful lovers met again after a lifetime of parting. And the grotesque Devil-Gods around glared fiercely at them. But the ...

— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly

... diabolical visitations to which Father Vianney was frequently exposed, reached his colleagues, they laughed aloud. They declared that he was a dreamer, ...

— The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Cur of Ars • Anonymous

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