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daydream
English
Etymology
day +? dream
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?de?d?i?m/
- enPR: d?'dr?m?
Noun
daydream (plural daydreams)
- A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
- Coordinate terms: woolgathering, brown study, castles in Spain
Translations
Verb
daydream (third-person singular simple present daydreams, present participle daydreaming, simple past and past participle daydreamt or daydreamed)
- To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
- Stop daydreaming and get back to work!
Translations
See also
- daymare
- dream
- nightmare
- REM
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wish
English
Etymology
From Middle English wisshen, wischen, wüschen, from Old English w?s?an (“to wish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunskijan, from Proto-Germanic *wunskijan? (“to wish”), from Proto-Indo-European *wun-, *wenh?- (“to wish, love”).
Cognate with Scots wis (“to wish”), Saterland Frisian wonskje (“to wish”), West Frisian winskje (“to wish”), Dutch wensen (“to wish”), German wünschen (“to wish”), Danish ønske (“to wish”), Icelandic æskja, óska (“to wish”), Latin Venus, veneror (“venerate, honour, love”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?sh, IPA(key): /w??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: whish (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
wish (plural wishes)
- A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
- An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
- The thing desired or longed for.
- 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
- "I suppose all old soldiers are the same," said Mrs White. "The idea of our listening to such nonsense! How could wishes be granted in these days? And if they could, how could two hundred pounds hurt you, father?" / "Might drop on his head from the sky," said the frivolous Herbert.
- 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
- (Sussex) A water meadow.
Usage notes
- Collocates with make for the common expression make a wish. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- precatory
- velleity
Verb
wish (third-person singular simple present wishes, present participle wishing, simple past and past participle wished)
- (transitive) To desire; to want.
- 1716, Jonathan Swift, Phyllis, or the Progress of Love
- Now John the butler must be sent
To learn the road that Phyllis went:
The groom was wished to saddle Crop;
For John must neither light nor stop,
But find her, wheresoe'er she fled,
And bring her back alive or dead.
- Now John the butler must be sent
- 1716, Jonathan Swift, Phyllis, or the Progress of Love
- (transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 84:
- I wish he mean me well, that he takes so much pains!
- 1808, Jane Austen, letter, 1 October:
- She hears that Miss Bigg is to be married in a fortnight. I wish it may be so.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 84:
- (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome).
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures
- This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.
- 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
- Mr. White took the paw from his pocket and eyed it dubiously. "I don't know what to wish for, and that's a fact," he said slowly. "It seems to me I've got all I want."
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures
- (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil.
- (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
- (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- I was wished to your worship by a gentleman.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Usage notes
- In sense 4, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
Translations
References
- wish at OneLook Dictionary Search
- wish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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