daydream

daydream
[[t]de͟ɪdriːm[/t]]
daydreams, daydreaming, daydreamed
1) VERB If you daydream, you think about pleasant things for a period of time, usually about things that you would like to happen.

[V about n] Do you work hard for success rather than daydream about it?...

[V of n/-ing] He daydreams of being a famous journalist...

I am inclined to daydream.

2) N-COUNT A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.

He learnt to escape into daydreams of handsome men and beautiful women...

The idea for the story came to him in a daydream.


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