drem

• dreme, dreem, dreeme
• dream, dræm (Early Middle English)

From Old English drēam, from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz. Some senses are probably a semantic loan from Old Norse draumr, displacing sweven (from Old English swefn).

• IPA^(key): /drɛːm/
• Rhymes: -ɛːm

drem (plural dremes)

1. music (either sung or instrumental)
2. voice, conversing
3. joy, mirthfulness
4. dream (especially a prophetic one)
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Job 20:8”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     As a dꝛeem fleynge awei he ſchal not be foundun he ſchal paſſe as a nyȝtis ſiȝt

     Like a dream going away, he won't be found; he'll disappear like a night's vision.

5. (waking) vision, premonition

• (dream, vision): sweven

• dremen
• dremere
• dremynge

• English: dream
• Scots: dreme

• “drēm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
• “drēm, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.

• drijȇm (Ijekavian)

• IPA^(key): /drêːm/

drȇm m (Cyrillic spelling дре̑м)

1. slumber, doze

• dremati

drem

1. first-person singular present of dreti