variants
or less commonly dreamer
or DREAMer
plural Dreamers also dreamers or DREAMers
: a person living in the United States without legal status who arrived as the child of someone who did not have the documentation required for legal entry or residence
In U.S. medical schools, there are currently 99 Dreamers enrolled, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.—
Todd Ackerman
Todd AckermanThe program—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—protects about 700,000 people, known as dreamers, who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families that overstayed visas.—Mark Sherman
Mark ShermanBipartisan support exists for some form of legal protection for DREAMers, but fights over who should be protected, to what level and what should be included in the overall deal has forced Congress to a standstill.—Eliza Collins
Eliza CollinsExamples of dreamer in a Sentence
Noun (1)
I am a realist, but my sister is a dreamer.
Some dreamers talk in their sleep to the people in their dreams.
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
The only Hollywood-on-Hollywood films that tended to score with audiences were built on starry-eyed dreamers achieving their dreams of stardom on the screen, and Sunset Boulevard was the antithesis of that.
—Scott Huver, People.com, 3 Aug. 2025
The concept explores how dreamers fall into cycles of sleepless obsession, chasing the figure across dreams in an endless trance.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 July 2025
The story still is about a young boy who’s a dreamer, a scientist who is brilliant and who has this incredible kindness and love that’s endemic to him that sort of changes the world.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
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Noun
And then there have been the Jamaican dreamers, most notably the Jamaican bobsled team, the subject of the 1993 Disney move Cool Runnings.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
The only Hollywood-on-Hollywood films that tended to score with audiences were built on starry-eyed dreamers achieving their dreams of stardom on the screen, and Sunset Boulevard was the antithesis of that.
—Scott Huver, People.com, 3 Aug. 2025
The concept explores how dreamers fall into cycles of sleepless obsession, chasing the figure across dreams in an endless trance.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 July 2025
The story still is about a young boy who’s a dreamer, a scientist who is brilliant and who has this incredible kindness and love that’s endemic to him that sort of changes the world.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for dreamer
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“Dreamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreamer. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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