dreamer

[ dree-mer ]

/ ˈdri mər /

a person who dreams.

a person who lives in a world of fantasy; one who is impractical and unrealistic.

a person whose ideas or projects are considered audacious or highly speculative; visionary.

Origin of dreamer

1250–1300; Middle English. See dream, -er¹

He was a dreamer, an idealist, grounded in the reality he observed around him.

Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light |Mike Barnicle |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Then came Obama, handsome rider of unicorns and dreamer of hope and change.

Hey, Boomers—Millennials Hate Your Partisan Crap |Nick Gillespie |July 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Allan Mayer, American Apparel's co-chair, seemingly laughed at Charney's plea, labeling him "a dreamer."

American Apparel’s Dov Charney Speaks for First Time Since Firing |The Fashion Beast Team |June 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Secretly, however, Marie pines for Emil Bergson, a dreamer and intellect who seems ill-suited to life on a farm.

American Dreams: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather |Nathaniel Rich |February 27, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

The dreamer tries to help, and fends off a man who is about to accost her with lecherous intentions.

Book Bag: André Aciman’s Favorite Novellas of Unconsummated Loves |André Aciman |January 1, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
John Cooper was not characteristically a seer of visions or a dreamer of dreams.

Peter Cooper |Rossiter W. Raymond
These have a logic of their own; but the dreamer has not even a crazy logic.

The Oxford Book of American Essays |Various
She was an enthusiast, a dreamer, passionately 315 sincere, passionately pitiful.

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker |Marguerite Bryant
The dreamer was the natural son of the unfortunate Lady Brandon.

The Deputy of Arcis |Honore de Balzac
Why may we not do the same thing here, ask the dreamer to give us the meaning of his dream?

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis |Sigmund Freud

dreamer

/ (ˈdriːmə) /

a person who dreams habitually

a person who lives in or escapes to a world of fantasy or illusion; escapist

archaic a prophet; visionary