daydream

English

Etymology

From day +‎ dream. Compare West Frisian deidream (“daydream”), Dutch dagdroom (“daydream”), German Tagtraum (“daydream”), Swedish dagdröm (“daydream”), Icelandic dagdraumur (“daydream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdɹiːm/, [ˈdeɪdɹiːm], (sometimes) [ˈdeɪd͡ʒɹiːm]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• enPR: dā'drēmˈ

Noun

daydream (plural daydreams)

1. A spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.

   Coordinate terms: woolgathering, brown study, castles in Spain, reverie

   • 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2022:

     With Free Guy, Reynolds gets just a little more in touch with his Carrey side via nothing less than his own version of The Truman Show, shorn of its daydream dread and rocketed into the age of Fortnite.

Derived terms

• daydreamer
• daydreamlike
• daydreamy

Translations

a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts — see also daydreaming

• Afrikaans: dagdroom
• Belarusian: ма́ра (be) f (mára)
• Bulgarian: блян (bg) m (bljan), мечта́ (bg) m (mečtá)
• Buryat: хүсэл (xüsel)
• Catalan: ensomni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白日夢 / 白日梦 (zh) (báirìmèng), 空想 (zh) (kōngxiǎng), 夢想 / 梦想 (zh) (mèngxiǎng)

• Czech: snění (cs) n
• Danish: dagdrøm c
• Dutch: dagdroom (nl) m
• Esperanto: revo
• Faroese: dagdreymur m
• Finnish: päiväuni (fi)
• French: rêverie (fr) f
• German: Tagtraum (de) m
• Greek: ονειροπόλημα (el) n (oneiropólima)
• Hebrew: חלום בהקיץ m (khalom be'haqytz)
• Hindi: दिनी-स्वप्न m (dinī-svapna)
• Icelandic: dagdraumur (is) m, dagdreymi (is) n
• Italian: sogno ad occhi aperti, fantasticheria (it) f, fantasticaggine f
• Japanese: 白日夢 (ja) (はくじつむ, hakujitsumu), 白昼夢 (ja) (はくちゅうむ, hakuchūmu), 空想 (ja) (くうそう, kūsō), 夢想 (ja) (むそう, musō)
• Korean: 백일몽 (ko) (baegilmong)
• Latin: somnium n
• Macedonian: мечта f (mečta)
• Malay: angan-angan (ms)
• Māori: wawata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dagdrøm (no) m

  Nynorsk: dagdraum m

• Polish: marzenie (pl) n, mara (pl) f
• Portuguese: sonho acordado m
• Romanian: reverie (ro) f
• Russian: мечта́ние (ru) f (mečtánije), мечта́ (ru) f (mečtá), грёзы (ru) f pl (grjózy)
• Spanish: ensueño diurno m, fantasía (es) f, ensueño despierto m
• Swedish: dagdröm (sv) c
• Tamil: பகற்கனவு (pakaṟkaṉavu), பகற்கனா (pakaṟkaṉā)
• Telugu: పగటికల (te) (pagaṭikala)
• Turkish: hayal (tr)
• Ukrainian: ма́рення n (márennja), мрі́я (uk) f (mríja)
• Vietnamese: sự mơ màng (vi)

Verb

daydream (third-person singular simple present daydreams, present participle daydreaming, simple past and past participle daydreamt or daydreamed)

1. (intransitive) To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

   Stop daydreaming and get back to work!

Derived terms

• daydreamingly

Translations

to have such a series of thoughts

• Afrikaans: dagdroom
• Belarusian: ма́рыць impf (márycʹ)
• Bulgarian: блену́вам (bg) impf (blenúvam), мечта́я (bg) impf (mečtája)
• Catalan: somiar despert
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 發夢 / 发梦 (faat³ mung⁶)

  Mandarin: 做白日夢 / 做白日梦 (zuò báirìmèng)

• Czech: snít (cs)
• Danish: dagdrømme
• Dutch: dagdromen (nl)
• Esperanto: revi (eo)
• Estonian: unistus, unelm
• Finnish: uneksia (fi), haaveilla (fi), unelmoida (fi)
• French: rêvasser (fr), rêver (fr)
• Galician: soñar esperto
• Georgian: წარმოსახვა (c̣armosaxva), ფანტაზიორობა (panṭazioroba)
• German: tagträumen (de), träumen (de)
• Greek: ονειροπολώ (el) (oneiropoló)
• Hebrew: חלם בהקיץ (khalám b'hakíts)
• Hungarian: álmodozik (hu)
• Ingrian: uneksia
• Italian: fantasticare (it), sognare ad occhi aperti
• Latin: somnio
• Luxembourgish: dreemen
• Macedonian: мечтае (mečtae)
• Malay: berangan
• Māori: wawata
• Nepali: दिवासपना (divāsapanā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dagdrømme

  Nynorsk: dagdrøyme

• Polish: marzyć (pl) impf, śnić na jawie impf, myśleć o niebieskich migdałach (pl) impf (idiomatic)
• Portuguese: sonhar acordado, pensar na morte da bezerra (pt)
• Romanian: visa cu ochii deschiși
• Russian: мечта́ть (ru) impf (mečtátʹ), гре́зить (ru) impf (grézitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сања́рити

  Latin: sanjáriti (sh)

• Slovene: sanjariti
• Spanish: soñar despierto, pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejo (es) (thinking about the immortality of the crab), fantasear (es), estar en Babia (es), ensoñar despierto, pensar en las musarañas, ensimismarse (es), abstraerse (es), elucubrar (es)
• Swedish: dagdrömma (sv)
• Tamil: பகற்கனவு காண் (pakaṟkaṉavu kāṇ), பகற்கனா காண் (pakaṟkaṉā kāṇ)
• Thai: ฝันเฟื่อง (th) (făn-fêuang), ฝันกลางวัน (th)
• Ukrainian: мрі́яти impf (mríjaty)
• Vietnamese: mơ mộng (vi)

See also

• daymare
• dream
• nightmare
• REM