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From day + dream. Compare West Frisian deidream (“daydream”), Dutch dagdroom (“daydream”), German Tagtraum (“daydream”), Swedish dagdröm (“daydream”), Icelandic dagdraumur (“daydream”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
daydream
Today it means: A spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality. Full definition →