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PIPE DREAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
Example:
I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe
Synonyms:
dream; pipe dream
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pipe dream" is a kind of...):
fantasy; phantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)
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