dreamer

From Middle English dremer, dremere, dremare, equivalent to dream +‎ -er. Cognate with West Frisian dreamer (“dreamer”), Saterland Frisian Dröömer (“dreamer”), Dutch dromer (“dreamer”), German Träumer (“dreamer”), Danish drømmer (“dreamer”), Swedish drömmare (“dreamer”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹimɚ/,
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹiːmə/

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• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

dreamer (plural dreamers)

1. One who dreams.
2. Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.
   • 1971, John Lennon, “Imagine”:

     You may say I'm a dreamer/ But I'm not the only one/ I hope someday you'll join us/ And the world will live as one.

   • 2015, Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson, Totally Charmed: Demons, Whitelighters And the Power of Three, →ISBN:

     Eighties witches were not the patchouli-dipped, lovebead-wearing, back-to-the-earth dreamers of the seventies.

3. Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae.
4. A swallow-winged puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)

• daydreamer

• “dreamer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “dreamer”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• rearmed, redream