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Meanings of daydreamer in English

Spanish
soñador

Someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming.

soñador
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Examples for "woolgatherer"
Examples for "woolgatherer"
1
He did give it you, didn't he, you old Woolgatherer?
Esther Waters
2
Also tells about a scene that Steve was supposed to do with her in a play called "The Woolgatherer."
The new yorker
Usage of daydreamer in English
1
A self-confessed daydreamer, Ng wants no money from space agencies for his designs.
Reuters
2
I was always a daydreamer, I must have been a nightmare to captain.
The Guardian
3
However, the cuckolded outsider, Leopold Bloom, remains the most enduring daydreamer of them all.
The Irish Times
4
Had we, or they, ever met an average daydreamer.
The new yorker
5
He was round and plain, a daydreamer, a stutterer.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
6
Mind you, if my school reports were anything to go by, I always was a daydreamer.
The Irish Times
7
No mere romantic daydreamer would fashion fantasies with military secrecy in mind and security as a principle.
Talents, Incorporated
8
One way of overcoming this would be special radio broadcasts to stir the daydreamer out of his lethargy.
The new yorker
9
Not bad for a daydreamer novice.
The Neutronium Alchemist
10
How was he to know that under the surface of it all, she sympathized with the culprit daydreamer exceedingly?
A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
11
No daydreamer likes being pulled out of his dream by so ugly a reality as Pete, and Johnny was petulant.
Skyrider
12
She was "a total daydreamer" growing up: "I would lock myself in rooms and spend time just daydreaming, which sounds completely nuts.
The Guardian
13
Runaway Daydreamer and The Deer and the Wolf veer into twee danger zones .
The Irish Times
14
This would have led to silent daydreamers -usually girls -not being identified.
The South African
15
Daydreamers have been with us a long time.
The Irish Times
16
The 2006 live performance, of the song Daydreamer, features the singer accompanying herself on acoustic guitar.
The Guardian
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Daydreamer through the time