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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DREAMER, n.
1. One who dreams.
2. A fanciful man; a visionary; one who forms or entertains vain schemes; as a political dreamer.
3. A man lost in wild imagination; a mope; a sluggard.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is dreaming
2: someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations [syn: idealist, dreamer]
3: a person who escapes into a world of fantasy [syn: escapist, dreamer, wishful thinker]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. one that dreams 2. a. one who lives in a world of fancy and imagination b. one who has ideas or conceives projects regarded as impractical ; visionary

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who dreams. 2 a romantic or unpractical person.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dreamer Dream"er, n. 1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dreamers) If you describe someone as a dreamer, you mean that they spend a lot of time thinking about and planning for things that they would like to happen but which are improbable or impractical. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder.

Moby Thesaurus

Don Quixote, Quixote, Utopian, daydreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, idealist, idealizer, illusionist, lotus-eater, prophet, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, theorist, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, visionary, wishful thinker