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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
daydream
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Almost anyone who has ever read a good book has daydreamed about writing his or her own best-seller.
▪ At school, he was always being told to 'stop daydreaming'.
▪ Blackthorne was sitting alone in a corner of the garden, daydreaming.
▪ Carol sat at her desk, daydreaming about meeting Mel Gibson.
▪ Colin began to daydream about what he would do if he won the lottery.
▪ Daniel was a quiet child who daydreamed in class.
▪ Many women daydream about having time to themselves.
▪ Mark had begun to daydream, and didn't even hear the teacher's question.
▪ When Charles tapped me on the shoulder I was daydreaming of golden beaches and palm trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As children, we learn that we shouldn't daydream.
▪ Irene daydreamed incessantly of hilly streets, cable cars, Chinatown and Rice-o-Roni.
▪ The old hands were less excited and settled down to daydream the time away until supper.
▪ These seem amazing facts in a country which daydreams about exporting its democracy.
▪ This is a wonderful place to daydream and dawdle.
▪ Those who have been daydreaming or carving their initials into the desktops sit up.
▪ You crumple the paper and begin daydreaming to ease the frustration.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I began to have daydreams about us being married.
▪ Ingrid was brought out of her daydream by a shout from her mother.
▪ Neil seemed lost in a daydream, and didn't hear what I said.
▪ She was sitting at the back of the class, lost in a daydream.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was a deliciously decadent daydream which stirred the blood, sending adrenalin pumping through his system.
▪ Jolted from his daydreams, Lucien had time only to feel a rush of air as Amber Epipheny swept past him.
▪ Something moved in the water and snapped me out of my daydream.
▪ There are also fantasies where there is no serious desire for fulfilment, as in the manner of daydreams.
▪ These stories and my daydreams underlined what was happening in Lobethal and elsewhere.
▪ When he came out, he thought, he would sit in the driver's seat and allow himself a daydream.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Daydream

Daydream \Day"dream`\ (-dr[=e]m`), n. A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over.
--Thackeray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
daydream

1680s, from day + dream (n.). As a verb, attested from 1820. Related: Daydreamer; daydreaming.

Wiktionary
daydream

n. A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality. vb. To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

WordNet
daydream
  1. n. absent-minded dreaming while awake [syn: reverie, revery, daydreaming, oneirism, air castle, castle in the air, castle in Spain]

  2. v. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: dream, woolgather, stargaze]

  3. have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: moon]

Wikipedia
Daydream

Daydreaming is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, specially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.

There are many types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition amongst psychologists, however the characteristic that is common to all forms of daydreaming meets the criteria for mild dissociation.

Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful album)

Daydream is the second album by The Lovin' Spoonful, released in 1966. It features two hits, the title track, which reached No. 2 in the U.S. Billboard Top 40 charts, and " You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" (U.S. No. 10).

Daydream (disambiguation)

A daydream is a fantasy that a person has while awake.

Daydream(s) or Day Dream(s) may also refer to:

Daydream (1964 film)

is a 1964 Japanese film. It was the first erotic film to have a big budget and a mainstream release in Japan, and was shown at the Venice Film Festival and given two releases in the United States. Director Tetsuji Takechi remade the film in hardcore versions in 1981 and 1987. Both of these remakes starred actress Kyōko Aizome.

Daydream (1981 film)

( 1981) is a Japanese film. A remake by director Tetsuji Takechi of his ground-breaking 1964 pink film of the same title, this film is considered the first hardcore theatrical release in Japan.

Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful song)

"Daydream" is a popular song written by John Sebastian, published in 1966. The song was originally recorded that year by Sebastian's group The Lovin' Spoonful and released on their album of the same title.

The song reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and also #2 on the UK singles chart. In New Zealand, the song spent three weeks at #1. It also reached #1 in Canada, and #13 in Australia. "Daydream" originated with Sebastian's attempt to rewrite The Supremes' " Baby Love".

Daydream (Katherine Jenkins album)

Daydream is the eighth studio album by Welsh classical crossover artist Katherine Jenkins and was released on 10 October 2011. The album was her second with Warner Bros.

Daydream (Mariah Carey album)

Daydream is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released on October 3, 1995, by Columbia Records. The follow-up to her internationally successful album Music Box (1993) and holiday album Merry Christmas (1994), Daydream differed from the two by leaning increasingly towards R&B and hip hop. Throughout the project, Carey collaborated with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote and produced most of her two previous albums. With Daydream, Carey took more control over the musical direction as well as the album's composition. Carey said she considered Daydream the beginning of her musical and vocal transformation, a change that became more apparent in her sixth album Butterfly (1997). During the album's production, Carey endured many creative differences with her label and husband Tommy Mottola.

On Daydream, Carey collaborated with Jermaine Dupri for the first time, and co-wrote and produced a song with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, with whom she had collaborated on Music Box. It was also the first time she had worked with Boyz II Men, an R&B group consisting of four male vocalists. Together, they wrote the concept and lyrics for " One Sweet Day," a song that Carey co-produced with Afanasieff. With his assistance and the addition of a few contemporary producers, she was able to make a subtle transition into the R&B market. Daydream was nominated for six Grammy Awards at the 38th annual ceremony, during which Carey performed live. Due to the album's critical and commercial success, critics believed Carey would be one of the night's big winners. However, to her dismay, she was completely shut out, causing the subject to become very public and controversial. She left the annual ceremony empty-handed.

Six singles were released from the album. Its lead single " Fantasy" became the first single by a female artist to debut at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and went on to top the chart for eight weeks and became the second best-selling single of 1995 in the country. The song topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and became a top-five hit in Finland, France, and the United Kingdom. The second single " One Sweet Day" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for sixteen weeks and became the longest-running number one single in American history, a record it still holds. It also topped the charts in Canada and New Zealand and peaked within the top five in Australia, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Jointly, the singles from Daydream spent a combined six months at the top of the Hot 100. To promote Daydream, Carey embarked on the short but successful, Daydream World Tour, visiting Japan and Europe.

At the time of its release, Daydream became Carey's best-reviewed album. Critics universally praised her matured lyrics and songwriting, as well as her musical direction. The album became an international success, debuting at number one in nine different countries, and in the top five in almost every major music market. Daydream became Carey's second album to be certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of ten million copies in the United States. Aside from its success in the United States, the album made the top five of the best-selling albums in Japan by a non-Asian artist, with 2.1 million copies sold. Daydream remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, with 25 million copies sold worldwide.

Daydream (Wallace Collection song)

"Daydream" is a song recorded in 1969 by the Belgian band Wallace Collection. It was composed by band members Sylvain Vanholme and Raymond Vincent, with David MacKay who also produced the single. The song is in the symphonic pop/rock genre, and uses strings and flutes. The song was a hit in mainland Europe, though popularity didn't make it to English speaking countries, despite its use of English lyrics. The song was covered several times, most notably by the Gunter Kallmann Orchestra in 1970.

The song takes its melody from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet. It also uses the second theme from the second movement of Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1.

"Daydream" found new life, starting in the 1990s, as a source of samples in trip hop, electronica and hip hop music. It has even been (mistakenly) credited as having created the Bristol Sound , although the sample that Portishead and Tricky used for "Glory Box" and "Hell Is Round the Corner" respectively is in fact from the similar sounding Isaac Hayes track "Ike's Rap II" from his 1971 album Black Moses.

Daydream (Google)

Daydream is a virtual reality (VR) platform developed by Google. It was announced at Google I/O 2016 and will be released in Autumn in the same year with additional sources indicating a November 2016 date.

The platform is to be built-into the Android operating system starting with the release of Android 7.0 Nougat, and includes both software and hardware specifications, calling compatible phones "Daydream-Ready". It will be the successor to Google Cardboard.

Daydream (Aimer album)
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daydream is the fourth studio album released by Aimer. It was released in three versions: a limited CD+Blu-ray (Type-A), a limited CD+DVD edition (Type-B), and a regular CD only edition. The song "Falling Alone" was used as lead track and was previously released as her 10th digital single as advance of the album.

Artist Aimer Album daydream Released September 21, 2016 Catalog Number SECL-1983~4 (Limited Edition A) SECL-1985~6 (Limited Edition B) SECL-1987 (Regular Edition) Price ¥4,600 (Limited Edition A) ¥3,600 (Limited Edition B) ¥3,000 (Regular Edition) CD Tracklist
  1. insane dream
  2. ninelie with chelly (EGOIST)
  3. twoface
  4. Higher Ground
  5. for Lonely with Abe Mao (for ロンリー)
  6. Chouchou Musubi (蝶々結び; Butterfly Knot)
  7. Kataomoi (カタオモイ; Unrequited Love)
  8. Hz
  9. Kowairo (声色; Tone of Voice)
  10. closer
  11. Falling Alone
  12. us
  13. Stars in the rain
Blu-ray / DVD Tracklist
  1. MUSIC VIDEOS
    1. insane dream
    2. us
    3. ninelie
    4. Falling Alone
    5. Chouchou Musubi
  2. Aimer Live Tour "DAWN" (Blu-ray edition only)
    1. MOON RIVER
    2. Believe Be:leave
    3. Noir! Noir!
    4. Anata ni Deawanakereba ~Kasetsu Touka~ (あなたに出会わなければ ~夏雪冬花~ If I Hadn't Met You ~Summer Snow, Winter Flowers~)
    5. Kimi wo Matsu (君を待つ; I Will Wait for You)
    6. Re:pray
    7. Re:far
    8. Heartache (Aimer)|Heartache ( ONE OK ROCK cover)
    9. Dareka, Umi wo. (誰か、海を。; Someone, The Sea.)
    10. AM02:00 - AM04:00
    11. After Rain
    12. Hoshi no Kieta Yoru ni (星の消えた夜に; Night When Stars Disappeared)
    13. LAST STARDUST
    14. Brave Shine
    15. DAWN
  3. BONUS TRACK
    1. "Koutetsujou no Kabaneri" SPECIAL ENDING MOVIE

Usage examples of "daydream".

Sitting there with his knees bracketing the bombsight January dozed, and as he dozed he daydreamed his way out.

Uda bin Sali really did have a myocardial infarction while he was daydreaming about his favorite whore in downtown London.

He walked up to the counter and rapped on it with the butt of the rifle, jerking the old woman out of a daydream.

The supercity was not an option for me anymore, but I daydreamed for a while as I wandered the wide leafy streets and used the glow-walks like everyone else.

And then another pang as she thought how at ease he was with children and how she had once daydreamed about the children they would have.

While I was daydreaming my arm was grasped, I was hoisted up, the cheque in its gold-ribboned envelope was thrust into my hand.

I used to sit in class and daydream about it, the way the other kids were daydreaming about being a movie star, being a big basketball player.

I told him that I had been daydreaming about the past, and that whenever I remembered an especially happy moment, I would lift my hands from my lap, and I would clap three times.

At work, once I was able to cruise through calls on autopilot, I often found myself slipping away into daydreams of discovery, in which I would conjure up new titbits of .

There, unbothered by the clamour and distraction of the restaurant, every night she had completed her homework and read her books and daydreamed about a future that had fluctuated between becoming a model or a writer or even, several times during her classical romantic phase, courtesan to a rich and famous man: an exiled king, maybe.

As beautiful as he found herher black locks and blue eyes igniting some very uncomfortable flames of imaginationthe images were always somehow hollow, colorless at heart, lacking the amber-and-rose glow such daydreams had possessed when Carline had been a distant, unapproachable, and unknown figure.

Thus at the instant of first Exterior Contact, before Immersion of the Gift into a Coat-Pocket, all Honor Mason might take in the Moment is drain'd away, as even his Daydreams turn upon him, allowing among them Clive Anointing Maskelyne, as if in some particularly tasteless Painting destin'd to hang at the Greenwich Observatory, "It has its Elements of Excess," Maskelyne will admit, "dive's Tunick in partickular, and one or two of the attending Dignitaries' Hats.

He had daydreamed throughout his entire journey home, whistling while he rode with his comrade and soldier, Breck, and staring up at the stars at night, looking for Cassandra's face.

Brought up in 1950s in Tyneside, he read extensively, daydreamed, and grew cacti because they seemed like the vegetation of an alien planet.

A rock group, the Sonic Youth, dubbed themselves cyberpunks and featured a song called "The Sprawl" on their album, Daydream Nation (1988), while Kathy Acker, the postpunk godmother of the London fiction scene, wrote that parts of her novel, Empire of the Senseless (1988), are directly "ripped off" from Neuromancer.