dreamster
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From dream + -ster.