Edit Page
The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision | Your text | ||
Line 239: | Line 239: | ||
|Dread n.|| |
|Dread n.|| |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Dream n.||Mirth, noise, pleasure, gladness, rejoicing. Music: the sound of a musical instrument, melody. |
||
− | |Dream n.||The sense - "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind"- (also as a verb), probably related to Old Norse draumr, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise." But Old English dream meant only "joy, mirth, noisy merriment," also "music." And much study has failed to prove that Old English dream is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Words for "sleeping vision" in Old English were mæting and swefn. Old English "swefn" originally meant "sleep." Dream: "ideal or aspiration" is from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" 2. mirth, noise, pleasure, gladness, rejoicing. Music: the sound of a musical instrument, melody. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Drear n.||Soundness, gloom, dismalness. Also: '''drearhood, dreariness''' |
|Drear n.||Soundness, gloom, dismalness. Also: '''drearhood, dreariness''' |