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hayal — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • fantasy noun An imagined scenario, especially a pleasant or unrealistic one.
  • imagination noun The mental ability to form new ideas, images, or concepts not currently perceived by the senses.

Senses

hayal is used for these senses in English:

  • dream (countable, figurative) A hope or wish.
  • fantasy That which comes from one's imagination.
  • imagination The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
  • pipe dream (idiomatic, originally, US) A desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or a plan which is unlikely to work; a near impossibility. [from late 19th c.]

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.

dream — full definition

  1. noun A series of images, thoughts, or feelings experienced during sleep.
  2. noun A strong hope, ambition, or wish for the future.
  3. verb To experience images and events in the mind while asleep.
  4. verb To hope or aspire to something.

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