dreamster

English

Etymology

From dream +‎ -ster.

Noun

dreamster (plural dreamsters)

1. (rare) One who dreams; a dreamer.
   • 1888 June 20, “Evening Echoes”, in The Evening Republican, volume I, number 182, Meadville, Pa., page , column 2:

     A Beaver Falls, Pa., brewer named Anderson, who has something of a reputation as a dreamster, dreamed three nights in succession, recently, that Hon. William D. McKinley, of Ohio, would be nominated by the Republicans for President.

   • 1889 June 15, “Clarence River J. C. Races. Closing of Acceptances.”, in The Clarence & Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser, volume XXIX, number 2479, Grafton, N.S.W., page 8, column 4:

     Both horses mentioned at Baldwin’s performance as probable winner of the £500, have now been scratched; and at least one “dreamster,” who saw the St. Albans horse win easily, has had his anticipations crushed.

   • 1903, Dawn Graye, “A Village Heroine”, in A Story within a Story, Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company , page 24:

     What with dreaming all day and dreaming all night, you’re just growing into a dreamster, as Monica says.

   • 1941 May, Irvin R. Kuenzli, “The Secretary-Treasurer’s Page: The AFT Forges Ahead”, in The American Teacher, American Federation of Teachers, page 2, column 2:

     Unfortunately a few “dreamsters” and political ideologists (usually from unsuccessful locals representing only a small fraction of the tachers in the school system) succeeded in labelling the AFT as a Stalinist front organization.

   • 1961, Henry Treece, “Towards the Rising Sun”, in Jason, London: The Bodley Head, part three (Colchis), page 176:

     I asked Orpheus about this dream—he was one of the few I dared confide in; I would never have thought of asking Atalanta, who, although she bowed to me before the men, always smiled at me mockingly, as though she were waiting for something to happen to me, when we met alone. Orpheus shook his head and said that he was not a dreamster but that it seemed to him the gods had strange adventures in store for me.

   • 1992, David Storey, “Animals”, in Storey’s Lives: Poems 1951–1991, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 264:

     Not sure where animals like this can go: caged lemur, leopard, pacing at the bar: the humanary flow that waves, framing its discretionary flight to where the cageless captives nightly sight the dreamsters’ dreams of bestial delight or plunge to a wickedness below which bestiality itself must never go.

   • 1998, Sydney Prentice, “Prelude”, in Tale of the Turk: Journey of a Soul, Hermitage Press, →ISBN, page 33:

     Sam is too much of a dreamster. In due time he will discover that his garden of dreams yields a harvest of nightmares.

   • 2017, Morgan A. Brown, “Vaticinations of Berosus: Preface to The Book of Caesar”, in The Dial: Dalliances with False Surmise, volume I, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 18:

     When Alexander campaigned through the East, / Through Xerxes’ realm, where Persian dreamsters scried, / Doubt thrust his mentor’s quip from its high seat: / For what brash slave would “Nay!” a tyrant’s “Aye!”— / […]