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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old English drēam, from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz. Some senses are probably a semantic loan from Old Norse draumr, displacing sweven (from Old English swefn).
Pronunciation
Noun
drem (plural dremes)
- music (either sung or instrumental)
- voice, conversing
- joy, mirthfulness
- dream (especially a prophetic one)
a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Job 20:8”, in Wycliffe's Bible:As a dꝛeem fleynge awei he ſchal not be foundun he ſchal paſſe as a nyȝtis ſiȝt- Like a dream going away, he won't be found; he'll disappear like a night's vision.
- (waking) vision, premonition
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References
- “drēm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
- “drēm, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
Serbo-Croatian
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Pronunciation
Noun
drȇm m (Cyrillic spelling дре̑м)
- slumber, doze
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Slovene
Verb
drem
- first-person singular present of dreti