Meaning of dreamster | Babel Free

Definitions

One who dreams; a dreamer.

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Examples

“A Beaver Falls, Pa., brewer named Anderson, who has something of a reputation as a dreamster, dreamed three nights in succession, recently, that Hon. William D. McKinley, of Ohio, would be nominated by the Republicans for President.”

“Both horses mentioned at Baldwin’s performance as probable winner of the £500, have now been scratched; and at least one “dreamster,” who saw the St. Albans horse win easily, has had his anticipations crushed.”

“What with dreaming all day and dreaming all night, you’re just growing into a dreamster, as Monica says.”

“Unfortunately a few “dreamsters” and political ideologists (usually from unsuccessful locals representing only a small fraction of the tachers^([sic]) in the school system) succeeded in labelling the AFT as a Stalinist front organization.”

“I asked Orpheus about this dream—he was one of the few I dared confide in; I would never have thought of asking Atalanta, who, although she bowed to me before the men, always smiled at me mockingly, as though she were waiting for something to happen to me, when we met alone. Orpheus shook his head and said that he was not a dreamster but that it seemed to him the gods had strange adventures in store for me.”

“Not sure where animals like this can go: caged lemur, leopard, pacing at the bar: the humanary flow that waves, framing its discretionary flight to where the cageless captives nightly sight the dreamsters’ dreams of bestial delight or plunge to a wickedness below which bestiality itself must never go.”

“Sam is too much of a dreamster. In due time he will discover that his garden of dreams yields a harvest of nightmares.”

“When Alexander campaigned through the East, / Through Xerxes’ realm, where Persian dreamsters scried, / Doubt thrust his mentor’s quip from its high seat: / For what brash slave would “Nay!” a tyrant’s “Aye!”— / […]”

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