different between dream vs peace

English

Alternative forms

• dreame (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dreme, from Old English dr?am (“music, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, from earlier *draugmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?rowg?-mos, from *d?rewg?- (“to deceive, injure, damage”).

The sense of "dream", though not attested in Old English, may still have been present (compare Old Saxon dr?m (“bustle, revelry, jubilation", also "dream”)), and was undoubtedly reinforced later in Middle English by Old Norse draumr (“dream”), from same Proto-Germanic root.

Cognate with Scots dreme (“dream”), North Frisian drom (“dream”), West Frisian dream (“dream”), Low German Droom, Dutch droom (“dream”), German Traum (“dream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drøm, Norwegian Nynorsk draum, Swedish dröm (“dream”), Icelandic draumur (“dream”). Related also to Old English dr?ag (“spectre, apparition”), Dutch bedrog (“deception, deceit”), German Trug (“deception, illusion”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dr?m, IPA^(key): /d?i?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?im/, [d???????i?m], /d??im/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

dream (plural dreams)

1. Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

   Synonym: (archaic) sweven

   Hyponym: nightmare

   • Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.

   • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
2. (figuratively) A hope or wish.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
3. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.

   Synonym: vision

   • c. 1735, Alexander Pope, John Donne's Satires Versified

     There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
     Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream.

   • 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion

     It is not, then, a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dream (third-person singular simple present dreams, present participle dreaming, simple past and past participle dreamed or dreamt)

1. (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
2. (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
3. (intransitive) To daydream.

4. (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).

   • And still they dream that they shall still succeed.

   • At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
     And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.

5. (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
   • 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I scene 5, lines 167-8

     There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
     Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Usage notes

• "Dreamt" is less common than "dreamed" in both US and UK English in current usage, though somewhat more prevalent in the UK than in the US.

Derived terms

• bedream
• dream up
• dream on

Translations

Adjective

dream (not comparable)

1. Ideal; perfect.
   • 2014, P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories, Random House (?ISBN), page 158:

     If a girl who talked like that was not his dream girl, he didn't know a dream girl when he heard one.

References

Further reading

• dream in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dream in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• -derma, Mader, ad rem, armed, dearm, derma, derma-, m'dear, medar, ramed, redam

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish dremm (“crowd, throng”), from Proto-Celtic *dregsmo, itself probably related to *drungos (“throng, host”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /d???aum?/, /d???oum?/ (as if spelled dram)
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /d?????m?/, /d???am?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d???am?/

Noun

dream m (genitive singular dreama, nominative plural dreamanna)

1. crowd, group of people, party (group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity)
   • 1929, Tomás Ó Criomhthain, An tOileánach, chapter 4 “Scolaidheacht agus Fánaidheacht”, p. 48:

     Thug sé scilling do’n té ab’ fhearr is gach rang agus ar shíneadh na scillinge ’nár rang-ne ní h-aenne de’n dream mór do fuair í ach me féin.

     He gave a shilling to the best one in each class, and when he was giving out shillings in our class, there wasn't one in that big group who got one but me myself.

Declension

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “drem(m)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “dream” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 260.
• "dream" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Middle English

Noun

dream

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of drem

Old English

Alternative forms

• dr?m, dr?m, *dr?em

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old Frisian dr?m, Old Saxon dr?m (“joy, music, dream”), Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dræ???m/

Noun

dr?am m

1. music
2. joy
3. frenzy, ecstasy

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: drem, dreme, dreem, dreeme
  • English: dream
  • Scots: dreme

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian dr?m, from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr???m/

Noun

dream c (plural dreamen, diminutive dreamke)

1. dream, vision in one's sleep
   • 2008, Greet Andringa, Libben reach, Friese Pers Boekerij, page 70.

2. daydream
3. desire, what one wishes
4. delusion

Further reading

• “dream”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle English pes, pais, pees, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pac?scor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pang? (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Displaced native Middle English frith, frede (“peace”) (from Old English friþ, fr?od (“peace”)), Middle English sib, sibbe (“peace”) (from Old English sibb (“peace, kinship”)), Middle English grith (“peace, security”) (from Old English griþ and Old Norse grið), Middle English saht, saught (“peace, reconciliation”) (from Old English seht, sæht (“peace, pact, agreement”)). Doublet of pax.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?s, IPA^(key): /pi?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s
• Homophone: piece

Noun

peace (usually uncountable, plural peaces)

1. A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.

   Synonyms: (poetic) frith; see also Thesaurus:calm

   Antonyms: disruption, violence

2. A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.

3. Harmony in personal relations.
4. A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.

   Antonyms: war, violence

   • 1969 March 31, John Lennon, Bagism Press Conference at Sacher Hotel, Vienna

     Now, a lot of cynics have said, “Oh, it’s easy to sit in bed for seven days,” but I’d like some of them to try it, and talk for seven days about peace. All we’re saying is give peace a chance.

   • 1993, Marky Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Link: The Faces of Evil, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).

Derived terms

Pages starting with “peace”.

Related terms

• pacific
• pacify
• pacification
• pacifism
• pacifist

Translations

Interjection

peace

1. (archaic) Shut up!, silence!; be quiet, be silent.
2. (slang) Shortened form of peace out; goodbye.

Verb

peace (third-person singular simple present peaces, present participle peacing, simple past and past participle peaced)

1. To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace.
   • 1997, Yusuf Jah, Shah'Keyah Jah, Uprising, page 49:

     Within every hood they have to be peacing with themselves. Then when you're living in peace with yourself, [...]
2. (slang) To peace out.

Further reading

Wikiversity

• peace in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• peace in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.