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Is this nickname spelled correctly?
"Dream Lover".
I am asking this because it has the verb "dream", and not the noun "dream". I need
Does it have to be "To Dream Lover", "Dreaming Lover", "Lover of Dream" or "Lover of Dreaming"? Or, is this nickname valid and/or correct like "Dream Lover"?
My opinion is that it is, correctly, "Lover of Dreaming". Can anyone confirm my opinion?
I need the name to be as short as possible, like "To Dream Lover".
I'm not English speaker, by the way.
Gladys is the dumbest person in the world. It didn't read the question.
Correctly: "Gladys is, because she did not read my message carefully (possibly), a very foolish person, possibly.".
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- ?Lv 6hace 7 meses
which context , they have different meanings , what is the rest of the question . are you using the word as lover of dreams or dream lover coacolly . please allaborate .
- ?Lv 7hace 7 meses
Too bad you couldn't pose this question to Bobby Darin. Unfortunately, he died 47 years ago.
- bluebellbkkLv 7hace 7 meses
I'm not sure why you insist that "dream" in this phrase is a verb. To me it means "a lover that I see in my dreams" - an ideal lover, the kind of lover that I will never actually meet, except in my dreams.
In this case 'dream" is a noun functioning as an adjective that describes "lover".
EDIT to add: Zirp's suggestion of "dream-lover" is syntactically possible (a person who loves dreams) but too many of us remember the original song to think of "Dream Lover" in any way but as a lover one meets only in dreams.However even in Zirp's suggestion "dream" is still not a verb. Asker, you make yourself ridiculous if you persist in claiming it is.
- busterwasmycatLv 7hace 7 meses
It is not obvious to me that "dream" is a verb there, rather than a noun, not that it matters to the question. If the name is Dream Lover, then the name has two words that are written with a starting capital letter. The Pied Piper, for example.
- GuantanamoGeorgeLv 7hace 7 meses
Whether the lover is dreaming or dreamt about, you would call him or her "dream lover." You owe Gladys an apology.
- Anónimohace 7 meses
dream-lover
It's a compound-noun
the "dream"-part is not a verb
- Anónimohace 7 meses
The only form which is really possible as a nickname is "Dream Lover".
In 'Dream Lover', the word 'dream' is used as an adjective, coming from the noun 'dream'. In English most nouns can be used as adjectives, and many adjectives can be used as nouns. Thus a 'Dream Lover' is the ideal lover as seen in a person's dreams.
The other forms might be grammatically possible, but nobody uses those forms.
Your suggestions connected with the use of 'dream' as a verb really do not play into the normal use of English. A good idea, but it just does not go with how native speakers of English think. Please believe me - I have been a native speaker in Britain and Australia for over 70 years.
I am glad that you have acknowledged that Gladys is female ('her'), not impersonal 'it'.
Later: I trust that the overwhelming message from all of us, from many different backgrounds, has now got through to you. The only possible form in normal everyday English is 'Dream Lover'. You may use the language in any way you care to, but don't expect the world to understand your reasoning in connection with a very well known expression.
