dreameryn.

Brit.

/ˈdriːm(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈdrim(ə)ri/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dream v.², -ery suffix.

Etymology: < dream v.² + -ery suffix. With sense 2 compare Dutch droomerij (16th cent.), German Tr̄äumerei (16th cent., rare before the 18th cent.), Swedish drömmeri (1794), and also earlier reverie n. II. and dreaming n.

Now somewhat rare.

1. A place where a person dreams or is likely to dream.

ΚΠ

1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 338 He would be..dissolved, like Sardanapalus, in that voluptuous dreamery, a hot-bath.

1893 W. F. Smith tr. F. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel in 5 Bks. & Minor Writings I. iii. xv. 447 They..spit in the Spitteries, coughed melodiously in the Cougheries, dreamed in the Dreameries [Fr. resvoient aux resvoirs], [etc.].

1995 A. Shafton Dream Reader iii. xiii. 408 Our word ‘clinic’ derives from the Greek for ‘couch’, upon which a person lay to incubate in the inner sanctuary, the dreamery, termed the ‘abaton’.

2. That which is dreamed or imagined; (also) the action or an act of dreaming; esp. delusion, fantasy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > product of > vain imaginings

ventilation1684

dreamery1830

vapouring1866

dreamage1883

1830 tr. P. D. A. Atterbom in Foreign Q. Rev. 6 131 Art thou too a stranger 'mid life's shadows thrown, Deceived by its dreamery [Sw. på drömmen]?

1838 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 313 One of the finest lecturers I ever heard..But it is all dreamery, after all.

1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 259/1 Think no more of those vain dreameries.

1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. xviii. 262 His whole stock of helplessness, dreamery, and unpracticality.

1903 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 14 46 The cultured adult..reverts to all the delicious dreameries of early days.

1916 P. MacKaye Caliban by Yellow Sands 115 Ariel, Fetch us, from out my father's dreamery, Nature's spring-charm and echo of English song!

2011 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 9 May c6 Translating the numbers into exoplanetary imagery is a sort of scientific dreamery, and in some ways just as uncertain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dreamery
释义	dreameryn. Brit. /ˈdriːm(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdrim(ə)ri/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dream v.², -ery suffix. Etymology: < dream v.² + -ery suffix. With sense 2 compare Dutch droomerij (16th cent.), German Tr̄äumerei (16th cent., rare before the 18th cent.), Swedish drömmeri (1794), and also earlier reverie n. II. and dreaming n. Now somewhat rare. 1. A place where a person dreams or is likely to dream. ΚΠ 1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 338 He would be..dissolved, like Sardanapalus, in that voluptuous dreamery, a hot-bath. 1893 W. F. Smith tr. F. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel in 5 Bks. & Minor Writings I. iii. xv. 447 They..spit in the Spitteries, coughed melodiously in the Cougheries, dreamed in the Dreameries [Fr. resvoient aux resvoirs], [etc.]. 1995 A. Shafton Dream Reader iii. xiii. 408 Our word ‘clinic’ derives from the Greek for ‘couch’, upon which a person lay to incubate in the inner sanctuary, the dreamery, termed the ‘abaton’. 2. That which is dreamed or imagined; (also) the action or an act of dreaming; esp. delusion, fantasy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > product of > vain imaginings ventilation1684 dreamery1830 vapouring1866 dreamage1883 1830 tr. P. D. A. Atterbom in Foreign Q. Rev. 6 131 Art thou too a stranger 'mid life's shadows thrown, Deceived by its dreamery [Sw. på drömmen]? 1838 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 313 One of the finest lecturers I ever heard..But it is all dreamery, after all. 1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 259/1 Think no more of those vain dreameries. 1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. xviii. 262 His whole stock of helplessness, dreamery, and unpracticality. 1903 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 14 46 The cultured adult..reverts to all the delicious dreameries of early days. 1916 P. MacKaye Caliban by Yellow Sands 115 Ariel, Fetch us, from out my father's dreamery, Nature's spring-charm and echo of English song! 2011 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 9 May c6 Translating the numbers into exoplanetary imagery is a sort of scientific dreamery, and in some ways just as uncertain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826
随便看	nontheologically nontheorem nontheoretical nontheoretically nonthoroughfare nonthreatening nontitle nontonal nontotalitarian nontouristy nontoxic nontoxics nontraditional nontraditionally nontransferability nontransferable nontransferrable nontransgenic nontransgression nontransitive nontransitivity nontransmission nontransparent nontransposing nontreaty