different between notion vs dream

English

Etymology

From Latin n?ti? (“a becoming acquainted, a taking cognizance, an examination, an investigation, a conception, idea, notion”), from n?scere (“to know”). Compare French notion. See know.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n????n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no???n/
• Rhymes: -????n

Noun

notion (plural notions)

1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

   • What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.

   • 1705-1715', George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed

     there are few that agree in their Notions about them:.

   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

     That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.

   • Notion, again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act.

2. A sentiment; an opinion.
   • December 2, 1832, John Henry Newman, Wilfulness, the Sin of Saul

     A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.
3. (obsolete) Sense; mind.
4. (colloquial) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.

5. Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.
6. (colloquial) Inclination; intention; disposition.

Translations

See also

• concept
• conception
• meaning

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?ti?, n?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.sj??/

Noun

notion f (plural notions)

1. notion

Further reading

• “notion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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