Meanings
noundaydream (plural daydreams)
plural daydreams
- A spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
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.
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, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2022
verbdaydream (third-person singular simple present daydreams, present participle daydreaming, simple past and past participle daydreamt or daydreamed)
present singular third person daydreams · participle present daydreaming · participle past daydreamt · past daydreamt · participle past daydreamed · past daydreamed
Synonyms & antonyms
nounabsentminded dreaming while awake
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verbhave a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From day + dream. Compare West Frisian deidream (“daydream”), Dutch dagdroom (“daydream”), German Tagtraum (“daydream”), Swedish dagdröm (“daydream”), Icelandic dagdraumur (“daydream”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans dagdroom, dagdroom
- dagdrooma spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- dagdroomto have such a series of thoughts
Arabic حُلْم يَقَظَة
- حُلْم يَقَظَة (ḥulm yaqaẓa)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
Bulgarian блян, мечта́
- блян (bljan)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- мечта́ (mečtá)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- блену́вам (blenúvam)to have such a series of thoughts
- мечта́я (mečtája)to have such a series of thoughts
Catalan ensomni, somiar despert
- ensomnia spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- somiar despertto have such a series of thoughts
Chinese Cantonese 發夢 /发梦
- 發夢 /发梦 (faat³ mung⁶)to have such a series of thoughts
Chinese Mandarin 白日夢 /白日梦, 空想
- 白日夢 /白日梦 (báirìmèng)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 空想 (kōngxiǎng)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 夢想 /梦想 (mèngxiǎng)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 做白日夢 /做白日梦 (zuò báirìmèng)to have such a series of thoughts
Czech snění, snít
- sněnía spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- snítto have such a series of thoughts
Danish dagdrøm, dagdrømme
- dagdrøma spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- dagdrømmeto have such a series of thoughts
Dutch dagdroom, dagdromen
- dagdrooma spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- dagdromento have such a series of thoughts
Esperanto revo, revi
- revoa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- revito have such a series of thoughts
Estonian unistus, unelm
- unistusto have such a series of thoughts
- unelmto have such a series of thoughts
Finnish päiväuni, uneksia
- päiväunia spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- uneksiato have such a series of thoughts
- haaveillato have such a series of thoughts
- unelmoidato have such a series of thoughts
French rêverie, rêvasser
- rêveriea spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- rêvasserto have such a series of thoughts
- rêverto have such a series of thoughts
German Tagtraum, tagträumen
- Tagtrauma spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- tagträumento have such a series of thoughts
- träumento have such a series of thoughts
Greek ονειροπόλημα, ονειροπολώ
- ονειροπόλημα (oneiropólima)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- ονειροπολώ (oneiropoló)to have such a series of thoughts
Hebrew חלום בהקיץ, חלם בהקיץ
- חלום בהקיץ (khalom be'haqytz)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- חלם בהקיץ (khalám b'hakíts)to have such a series of thoughts
Hindi दिनी-स्वप्न
- दिनी-स्वप्न (dinī-svapna)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
Hungarian álmodozik
- álmodozikto have such a series of thoughts
Icelandic dagdraumur, dagdreymi
- dagdraumura spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- dagdreymia spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
Italian sogno ad occhi aperti, fantasticheria
- sogno ad occhi apertia spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- fantasticheriaa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- fantasticagginea spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- fantasticareto have such a series of thoughts
- sognare ad occhi apertito have such a series of thoughts
Japanese 白日夢, 白昼夢
- 白日夢 (hakujitsumu)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 白昼夢 (hakuchūmu)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 空想 (kūsō)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 夢想 (musō)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 白日夢を見る (hakujitsumu o miru)to have such a series of thoughts
- 白昼夢を見る (hakuchūmu o miru)to have such a series of thoughts
Korean 백일몽, 공상
- 백일몽 (baegilmong)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 공상 (gongsang)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 몽상 (mongsang)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- 백일몽을 꾸다 (baegilmong-eul kkuda)to have such a series of thoughts
Latin somnium, somnio
- somniuma spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- somnioto have such a series of thoughts
Malay angan-angan, berangan
- angan-angana spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- beranganto have such a series of thoughts
Māori wawata, wawata
- wawataa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- wawatato have such a series of thoughts
Norwegian Bokmål dagdrøm, dagdrømme
- dagdrøma spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- dagdrømmeto have such a series of thoughts
Polish marzenie, mara
- marzeniea spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- maraa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- marzyćto have such a series of thoughts
- śnić na jawieto have such a series of thoughts
- myśleć o niebieskich migdałachto have such a series of thoughts
Portuguese sonho acordado, sonhar acordado
- sonho acordadoa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- sonhar acordadoto have such a series of thoughts
- pensar na morte da bezerrato have such a series of thoughts
Romanian reverie, visa cu ochii deschiși
- reveriea spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- visa cu ochii deschișito have such a series of thoughts
Russian мечта́ние, мечта́
- мечта́ние (mečtánije)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- мечта́ (mečtá)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- грёзы (grjózy)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- мечта́ть (mečtátʹ)to have such a series of thoughts
- гре́зить (grézitʹ)to have such a series of thoughts
Spanish ensueño diurno, fantasía
- ensueño diurnoa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- fantasíaa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- ensueño despiertoa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- soñar despiertoto have such a series of thoughts
- pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejoto have such a series of thoughts
- fantasearto have such a series of thoughts
- estar en Babiato have such a series of thoughts
- ensoñar despiertoto have such a series of thoughts
- pensar en las musarañasto have such a series of thoughts
- ensimismarseto have such a series of thoughts
- abstraerseto have such a series of thoughts
- elucubrarto have such a series of thoughts
Swahili ndoto ya mchana
- ndoto ya mchanaa spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
Swedish dagdröm, dagdrömma
- dagdröma spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- dagdrömmato have such a series of thoughts
Tamil பகற்கனவு, பகற்கனா
- பகற்கனவு (pakaṟkaṉavu)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- பகற்கனா (pakaṟkaṉā)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- பகற்கனவு காண் (pakaṟkaṉavu kāṇ)to have such a series of thoughts
- பகற்கனா காண் (pakaṟkaṉā kāṇ)to have such a series of thoughts
Thai ฝันเฟื่อง, ฝันกลางวัน
- ฝันเฟื่อง (făn-fêuang)to have such a series of thoughts
- ฝันกลางวันto have such a series of thoughts
Turkish hayal
- hayala spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
Ukrainian ма́рення, мрі́я
- ма́рення (márennja)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- мрі́я (mríja)a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- мрі́яти (mríjaty)to have such a series of thoughts
Vietnamese sự mơ màng, mơ mộng
- sự mơ mànga spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- mơ mộngto have such a series of thoughts
Cite this entry
APA
daydream. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daydream
MLA
“daydream.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daydream. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “daydream,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daydream.
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