DREAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dreamed mean? 

• DREAMED (adjective)
  The adjective DREAMED has 1 sense:

1. conceived of or imagined or hoped for

  Familiarity information: DREAMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DREAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conceived of or imagined or hoped for

Context example:

his dreamed symphony that would take the world of music by storm

Similar:

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

 Context examples 

He had never dreamed that the fund of human knowledge bulked so big.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was as a cue to him, seeming to rouse him to do what he would never have dreamed of doing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I dreamed—he stopped and seemed fainting, I called quietly to Quincey—The brandy—it is in my study—quick!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I, who had lived out of the whirl of the world, had never dreamed that its work was carried on in such fashion.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I have longed for it, I have dreamed of it, and now I can scarce bring my mind to understand that this great honor hath indeed been mine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had feared that the boy might receive evil from her, and had never dreamed in my blindness that she might get good from him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You saw yourself how neither of the inspectors dreamed of questioning his statement, extraordinary as it was.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dorothy fell asleep only once, and then she dreamed she was in Kansas, where Aunt Em was telling her how glad she was to have her little girl at home again.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Now and in the months ahead, you could be traveling much more frequently and to at least one foreign location you’ve never visited but always dreamed you would see.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Presently we sat down, side by side; and her angel-face was turned upon me with the welcome I had dreamed of, waking and sleeping, for whole years.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)