Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with dream in American Collocation
dream
noun
countable
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
strange
When I do get to sleep I have a strange dream involving chasing people down fire escapes.
bad
I keep having bad dreams in which I am falling from a cliff.
nice
I awoke from a pleasant dream.
in which you see what is going to happen in the future
He had had a spookily prophetic dream about death.
involving sexual thoughts
She had been having erotic dreams about a stranger she had met only a few days ago.
very clear
18.3 per cent of patients who took the drug reported having had vivid dreams.
happening many times
Jane and I have both had strange, recurring dreams about death.
have a dream
People often dream vivid recurrent dreams of events in the past.
I had a bad dream last night.
wake from a dream
He looked slightly disorientated, as if he had just woken from a dream.
not likely to be achieved
In our culture we are continually tempted to pay money for an elusive dream of satisfaction.
that you have had for a very long time
She was an ambitious mother, whose lifelong dream was for all four daughters to become accomplished musicians.
big and ambitious
Kapoor was a small time filmmaker with big dreams.
not achieved
He was left with nothing but his memories and shattered dreams.
happening at the end of a process
My ultimate dream is to have a farm of my own.
In a few years he will be rich beyond even his wildest dreams.
Smithy said “It was my childhood dream come true to fly this iconic British fighter”.