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мечта́ — meaning in English

mechta

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English meaning

  • ambition noun A strong desire to achieve success, power, or a particular goal.
  • daydream noun A pleasant chain of thoughts or fantasies that drift through your mind while you're awake, disconnected from what's actually happening around you.
  • dream noun A series of images, thoughts, or feelings experienced during sleep.
  • fancy verb British informal: to want or feel attracted to something or someone.
  • velleity noun The lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.

Senses

мечта́ is used for these senses in English:

  • ambition (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
  • ambition (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
  • dream (countable, figurative) A hope or wish.
  • fancy An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
  • velleity A slight wish not followed by any effort to obtain.

ambition — full definition

  1. noun A strong desire to achieve success, power, or a particular goal.
  2. noun A specific goal or objective that someone wants to achieve.

daydream — full definition

  1. noun A pleasant chain of thoughts or fantasies that drift through your mind while you're awake, disconnected from what's actually happening around you.
  2. verb To let your mind wander into pleasant fantasies instead of paying attention to what's in front of you.

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