dreamer

noun

Etymology: From Middle English dremer, dremere, dremare, equivalent to dream + -er. Cognate with West Frisian dreamer (“dreamer”), Saterland Frisian Dröömer (“dreamer”), Dutch dromer (“dreamer”), German Träumer (“dreamer”), Danish drømmer (“dreamer”), Swedish drömmare (“dreamer”).

1. One who dreams.
2. Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.

   “You may say I'm a dreamer/ But I'm not the only one/ I hope someday you'll join us/ And the world will live as one.”

   “Eighties witches were not the patchouli-dipped, lovebead-wearing, back-to-the-earth dreamers of the seventies.”

3. Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae.
4. A swallow-winged puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)