dreamware
/ˈdɹimˌwɛɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "No use talking, I'm an unpractical, useless dealer in dreamware; a metaphysician who don't know how to fry an egg, but can forget my dinner in discussing the objective value of the categories of [Immanuel] Kant."
- "Traditionally the designer who fashions scientific dreamware into workable wakingware, the engineer of old has sired an immense family of new offspring whose jobs were actually created by the Space Age, with more coming up daily. The main engineering groups of yesteryear—mechanical, civil, electrical, aeronautical, automotive, nuclear—have branched out or evolved into new specialities, such as rocket propulsion, payload ratios, fuel flow, telemetry, data-processing, materials-testing, g-stress factors and reliability of rocket systems."
- "To most people Revere Ware is dreamware. To be owned and treasured some day as the ultimate in stainless steel cookware. […] No need to wait. Revere Ware Copper Clad is priced to be owned now and lasts for years and years."
- "The painting could serve as a sign over a shop selling dreamware. Legend erases the line between conscious and unconscious. The images are both those released in sleep and those carried from waking into sleep and, as we look at the painting, from sleep into our awake eye."
- "So much of our contemporary theological dreamware is about escape. We long for heaven. We fix our eyes on the other world. We want out!"
- "Near-synonym: vapourware"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Germanic *draumaz Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English dreamware From dream (noun) + -ware (suffix forming nouns denoting items of a particular kind or for a particular use, and specific classes of computer software).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɹimˌwɛɹ/
- British English: /ˈdɹiːmwɛə/