Usually means: Unrealistic hope, keep wishing anyway.
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  1. dream on: Merriam-Webster
  2. dream on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dream on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. dream on: Wiktionary
  5. dream on: Dictionary.com
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  7. dream on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. dream on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Dream on, Dream on: Idioms

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  1. dream on: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dream on)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To sleep on (something); to consider (something) by dreaming about it.

Similar:
dream, bedream, redream, live out, fantasize, nightmare, stay up, fantasise, reverize, breathe, more...

Opposite:
give up, abandon, forget it, stop dreaming, be realistic

Phrases:
A Kiss to Build a Dream On, more...

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Similar:
dream, bedream, redream, live out, fantasize, nightmare, stay up, fantasise, reverize, breathe, more...

Opposite:
give up, abandon, forget it, stop dreaming, be realistic

Phrases:
A Kiss to Build a Dream On, more...



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