Dream world

Definition

dream /dri:m/ n ၁။ [C] အိပ္မက္။ a vivid/disturbing dream ❍ I have a recurrent dream that I'm acting in a play and I forget all my lines. ❍ Good night—sweet dreams! Compare NIGHTMARE ၁ ၂။ [sing] အိပ္မက္ဆန္ျခင္း။ အိပ္မက္ကမ႓ာ။ be/live/go around in a (complete) dream. အိပ္မက္မက္ေနတဲ့အတိုင္း ထင္ရတယ္/ သြားလာလႈပ္ရွားေန တယ္။ ၃။ [C] စိတ္ကူးယဥ္အိပ္မက္၊ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်က္။ an impossible dream ❍ achieve/realize/fulfil one's lifelong dream ❍ the car/holiday of your dreams ❍ If I win the tournament, it will be a dream come true (ie something I wanted very much, but did not expect to happen). ၄။ [sing] ( infml ) အိပ္မက္ပမာ အံ့ဩဖြယ္။ The meal she'd prepared was an absolute dream. ❍ a dream house/kitchen. See also DAY-DREAM, WET DREAM v ( pt, pp dreamt /dremt/ or dreamed /dri:md/) ၁။ (က) အိပ္မက္မက္သည္။ She claims she never dreams. (ခ) ~ (of sth/doing sth); ~ about sb/sth/doing sth အိပ္မက္မက္သည္။ I dreamt about you last night. ❍ Was it real or did I dream it? ❍ I dreamt (that) I could fly. ၂။ ~ (of/about sth/doing sth) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္သည္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ သည္။ I never promised to lend you my car: you must be dreaming! ❍ He dreams of one day becoming a famous violinist. ❍ It was the kind of home most of us only dream of. ❍ Who'd have dreamt it? They're getting married! ❍ I never dreamt (that) I'd see you again. ❏ a bad dream [ IDM ] မယံုႏိုင္စရာ အျဖစ္ဆိုး။ You can't be leaving me—this is a bad dream! ❏ dream sth away [ PHRV ] အလဟႆ အခ်ိန္ ျဖဳန္းသည္။ She dreamt her life away, never really achieving anything. ❏ dreamer n ၁။ အိပ္မက္မက္သူ။ ၂။ ( usu derog ) (က) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္သူ။ People who said man would land on the moon used to be called dreamers. (ခ) စိတ္ပ်ံ႕လြင့္ေနသူ။ ေတြေဝေနသူ။ Don't rely on him—he's a real dreamer. ❏ dreamless adj ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ၿခိဳက္ၿခိဳက္အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ေသာ။ ❏ dream on [ PHRV ] ( infml ironic ) ေမွ်ာ္ေန။ ေစာင့္ေန။ အိပ္မက္မက္ေန။ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ေန။ So you want a pay increase? Dream on! ❏ dream sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႀကံႀကံဖန္ဖန္ ေတာက္တီး ေတာက္တဲ့ စိတ္ကူးသည္။ Trust you to dream up a crazy scheme like this! ❏ dream world n စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ဘဝ။ အိပ္မက္ကမ႓ာ။ He lives in a dream world. ❏ go, etc like a dream [ IDM ] ( infml ) သိပ္ဟန္က်သည္။ အဆင္ေျပ ေခ်ာေမြ႕သည္။ My new car goes like a dream. ❏ not dream of sth/doing sth [ IDM ] စိတ္ေတာင္ မကူးဘူး။ အိပ္မက္ေတာင္မမက္ဘူး။ I'd never dream of allowing my child to do that.

Examples

1. [have a dream] : I had a strange dream last night.
2. [in a dream] : The idea came to him in a dream.
3. [dream of] : She watched her dreams of success fade away before her eyes.
4. A dream job/holiday/home