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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
pipe dream (noun)
an illusory or fantastic plan, hope, or story
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
pipe dream (noun)
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
SYNONYMS:
chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm ( fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision
RELATED WORDS:
ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp; brainchild, idea; concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualization; cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia; daymare, nightmare
NEAR ANTONYMS:
actuality, fact, reality
Pipe Dream (Wikipedia)
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Pipe dream, a phrase describing a wild or unattainable plan, derived from the act of smoking an opium pipe, which is also nicknamed "dream stick". It may also refer to:

Pipe Dream (Wiktionary)

English

Etymology

From pipe +‎ dream, referring to the fantasies experienced when smoking an opium pipe. Compare Old English pīpdrēam (“the sound or music of a pipe”), which is formed identically but has a different meaning.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪp driːm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪp ˌdrim/

Noun

pipe dream (plural pipe dreams)

  1. (idiomatic, originally US)
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Imagination, vision, mirage, hallucination, reverie, figment, dream, fancy, phantasm, apparition, mirage, pipe dream

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