英和和英

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈdeɪdɹiːm/, [ˈdeɪdɹiːm], (sometimes) [ˈdeɪd͡ʒɹiːm]
• enPR: dā'drēmˈ

名詞

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, 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.

派生語

動詞

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!

派生語

参考

• daymare
• dream
• nightmare
• REM