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DREAMT

Definition: DREAMT

DREAMT

1. Of Dream

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DREAMT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)


Crosswords: DREAMT

English words defined with "DREAMT": dreamTo run a rig. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DREAMT": AmigaDream AuthorshipJacob's Stone. (references)
Etymologies containing "DREAMT": Dream. (references)

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Modern Usage: DREAMT

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Awww, she must've dreamt about Hitler, again. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

I've dreamt about this since I was a little girl. (The Mummy; writing credit: Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle)

No, you just dreamt it. (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

Lyrics

Last night I dreamt of San Pedro (La Isla Bonita; performing artist: Madonna)

I dreamt that you and me got married on the WB (Daydreamin'; performing artist: Tatyana Ali)

Movie/TV Titles

She Dreamt of Onions (1911)

I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DREAMT

DomainTitle

Books

  • I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac ! Imagining (reference)

  • I Dreamt Last Night (reference)

  • I Dreamt the Snow Was Burning (reference)

  • More things ... than are dreamt of in our philosophy? (reference)

  • More Things Than Are Dreamt of: Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror-From Mary Shelley to Stephen King-In Literature and Film (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: DREAMT

Illustrations:
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Familiar Quotations: DREAMT

AuthorQuotation

Henry George

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: DREAMT

TitleAuthorQuote

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Then certifies your lordship that this night He dreamt the boar had razed off his helm.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: DREAMT

"DREAMT" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 58.26% of the time. "DREAMT" is used about 242 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)58.26%14126,682
Lexical Verb (past participle)41.74%10132,488
                    Total100.00%242N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: DREAMT

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "DREAMT": dreamt-of.

Ending with "DREAMT": day-dreamt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DREAMT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dreamt

7

dreamt jacob ladder where

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DREAMT

Language Translations for "DREAMT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏هائم يفى دنيا الخيال, ‏حالم (dreamer, dreamy, faraway, moonstruck, starry eyed, visionary). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

作梦 (Dreamed, Dreaming). (various references)

   

French

  

rêvai, rêva, révés, révées, révée, révé, révèrent. (various references)

   

German

  

träumte (daydreamed), geträumt. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

álmodott. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

꿈꾸" (Dreamed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eamtdray

   

Romanian

  

trecut şi participiu trecut de la dream. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

видеть во сне/, от dream. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pret y pp de dream. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự mơ m ng (dream, musing, reverie), sự mộng tưởng điều mơ tưởng (dream), giấc mơ (dream), giấc mộng sự mơ mộng (dream), điều mơ ước (dream), điều kỳ ảo như trong giấc mơ (dream). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DREAMT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DREAMT": dreamtime, dreamtimes. (additional references)

Words ending with "DREAMT": daydreamt, outdreamt, redreamt, undreamt. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DREAMT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creamt, Derartu, derat, dermat, Dermato, Dramat, drant, dreame, dreampt, drean, dreem, dreema, drema, dremt, dremyth, idriart. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DREAMT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: marted.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-r-t"

-1 letter: armed, armet, dater, derat, derma, dream, madre, mated, mater, ramet, rated, tamed, tamer, tared, trade, tread.

-2 letters: dame, dare, dart, date, dear, derm, dram, drat, made, mare, mart, mate, mead, meat, meta, rate, read, ream, tame, tare, team, tear, term, trad, tram.

-3 letters: are, arm, art, ate, dam, ear, eat, era, eta, mad.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-r-t"
 

+1 letter: matured, readmit, remated, smarted, trammed, tramped.

 

+2 letters: admitter, bromated, cremated, damewort, democrat, diameter, drumbeat, imparted, marketed, martyred, mastered, mattered, mediator, migrated, misrated, moderate, moderato, mortared, muriated, outdream, preadmit, readmits, redreamt, reteamed, streamed, tampered, tidemark, timecard, trameled, trampled, undreamt.

 

+3 letters: admitters, admixture, adornment, adumbrate, amortised, amortized, armatured, astrodome, comparted, dameworts, daydreamt, debarment, decameter, dekameter, demarcate, democrats, dermatome, diameters, diametral, diametric, diathermy, draftsmen, dramatise, dramatize, dreamiest, dreamtime, drumbeats, dynamiter, emigrated, farmstead, formatted, garmented, hardiment, macerated, margented, marinated, matricide, maturated, mediators, mediatory, mediatrix, meditator, midstream, misparted, mistraced, moderated, moderates, moderator, moderatos, mordanted, mortgaged, motorcade, numerated, outdreams, outdreamt, permeated, preadmits, ramparted, rematched, remediate, restamped, ruminated, smartened, smartweed, smattered, spermatid, stammered, stampeder, steamered, streambed, tamboured, taxidermy, tidemarks, timecards, trademark, tradesman, tradesmen, tramelled, trammeled, treadmill, trematode.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DREAMT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 45 41 4D 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-.    .    .-    --    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#77 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0045 0041 004D 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

385239354754

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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