{
    "term": "dream",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a series of images, events and feelings that happen in your mind while you are asleep",
            "sensetop": "dream about somebody/somethingdream about doing somethingdream that…in a/somebody's dream",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I **had a** really weird **dream** last night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I thought someone came into the bedroom, but it was just a dream."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Goodnight. **Sweet dreams**.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't think about it. You'll only give yourself **bad dreams**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a vivid dream about my old school.",
                    "contextForm": "dream about somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a recurrent dream about being late for an exam",
                    "contextForm": "dream about doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a dream that we were getting married at the airport.",
                    "contextForm": "dream that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His dead mother appeared to him in a dream.",
                    "contextForm": "in a/somebody's dream"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Images of the crash still haunted his dreams years later."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was awoken from my dream by a knock at the door."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She opened her eyes and the dream faded."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is plagued by strange dreams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hope my dream about prison won't come true!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In her dream, she was on board a ship heading for America."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hardly ever remember my dreams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She fell asleep and dreamed strange dreams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His waking dream was rudely interrupted by the telephone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a very disturbing dream last night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the disaster."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["awful", "bad", "disturbing"],
                "verb + dream": ["dream", "have", "awake from"],
                "dream + verb": ["come true", "haunt somebody", "plague somebody"],
                "dream + noun": ["interpretation"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the dream", "dream about"],
                "phrases": ["as (if) in a dream", "sweet dreams"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a wish to have or be something, especially one that seems difficult to achieve",
            "sensetop": "dream for somebody/somethingdream of doing somethingdream of somethingdream that…of somebody's dreams",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her **lifelong dream** was to be a famous writer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wanted to be rich but it was an **impossible dream**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a chance to **fulfil a** childhood **dream**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **realize/achieve a dream**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "If I win, it will be a **dream come true**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the end of all my **hopes and dreams**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The chance to study in Australia had always been a dream for her.",
                    "contextForm": "dream for somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The conversation turns to his dreams for the future."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He left his job to **pursue his dream** of opening a restaurant.",
                    "contextForm": "dream of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film is an exploration of a young boy's dream of a better life.",
                    "contextForm": "dream of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had a dream that one day his people would be free.",
                    "contextForm": "dream that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've finally found the man of my dreams.",
                    "contextForm": "of somebody's dreams"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Being a TV presenter would be my **dream job**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He tried to turn his dream of running his own business into reality."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She confided in him all her hopes and dreams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "their dream of a fairer world"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The victory keeps San Marino's dream of a World Cup place alive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The injury shattered her dream of running in the Olympics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had this romantic dream of living in a windmill."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He never abandoned his dream of finding his real mother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the great utopian dream that they have cherished for so long"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They achieved a success beyond their wildest dreams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their dream turned into a nightmare as the cruise ship began to sink."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His plans to travel the world now seemed like a distant dream."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her biggest dream was to become a singer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After Betty retired, she and her husband designed and built their dream house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the house of her dreams"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What would be your dream job?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "great", "lifelong"],
                "verb + dream": ["cherish", "have", "achieve"],
                "dream + verb": ["come true", "turn into a nightmare", "turn sour"],
                "dream + noun": ["holiday", "home", "house"],
                "preposition": ["dream of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the American dream",
                    "the… of somebody’s dreams",
                    "beyond somebody’s wildest dreams"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a state of mind or a situation in which things do not seem real or part of normal life",
            "sensetop": "in a dream",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She walked around in a dream all day.",
                    "contextForm": "in a dream"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He found himself standing in front of the crowded hall and making his speech, as if in a dream."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As if slowly emerging from a dream, she raised her head."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a beautiful or wonderful person or thing",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That meal was an absolute dream."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "far more, better, etc. than you could ever have imagined or hoped for",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to work very well",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My new car goes like a dream."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to happen without problems, in the way that you had planned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The wedding celebrations went like a dream."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody that something they are hoping for is not likely to happen",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘I'll be a manager before I'm 30.’ ‘In your dreams.’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "so unpleasant that you cannot believe it is true",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In broad daylight the events of the night before seemed like a bad dream."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to have a way of life that seems perfect",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "With her own TV show and a flat in Paris, she is living the dream."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/driːm/",
                "audio": "dr/dream/dream__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/driːm/",
                "audio": "dr/dream/dream__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: of Germanic origin, related to Dutch droom and German Traum, and probably also to Old English drēam ‘joy, music’."
}