¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Daydreamers
1. daydreamer [n] - See also: daydreamer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daydreamers
Literary usage of Daydreamers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School by Janet Allen, Kyle Gonzalez (1998)
"Before reading the poem "daydreamers," please respond under the Before column
... daydreamers do not do well in school. 2. People who get good grades do not ..."
2. Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Selected Listing by Ginny Moore Kruse (1991)
"0-8037- 0167-5) "daydreamers / holding their bodies still / for a time / letting
the World turn around them / while their dreams hopscotch, / doubledutch, ..."
3. Aspects of Child Life and Education by Granville Stanley Hall (1921)
"... and the biographies of artists, authors, and scientists emphasize the fact
that many of them have been daydreamers in boyhood, but always along with ..."
4. An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (1911)
"... it was not a fortunate day when we shared our daydream with the most hopeful
of daydreamers. For a while, indeed, the world looked smilingly. ..."
5. An Inland Voyage: And Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (1913)
"... shared our daydream with the most hopeful of daydreamers. For a while, indeed,
the world looked smilingly. The barge was procured and christened, ..."
6. Day One and Beyond: Practical Matters for New Middle-Level Teachersby Rick Wormeli by Rick Wormeli (2003)
"The weekends are for our students to be kids, members of families, and daydreamers.
They need the break just as much, if not more, than we do. ..."
7. Canada 2002 by Wayne C. Thompson (2003)
"Its peaceful atmosphere makes it a daydreamers' paradise. Guests are warmly received.
Guide service. Comfortable, tastefully decorated rooms are designated ..."
8. The Illustrative Lesson Notes: A Guide to the Study of the International edited by John Heyl Vincent, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, John Thomas McFarland (1906)
"What practical men they have been—these daydreamers! Columbus was a dreamer; Watt
and Stephenson and Fulton were dreamers; Franklin and Howe and Cyrus Field ..."
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