dream up

verb

dreamed up or dreamt up; dreaming up; dreams up

transitive verb

: to form in the mind : devise, concoct

Examples of dream up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Stepping into the New Hotel is a transportive journey that’ll pluck you from the ancient city and deposit you into this new world of contemporary art and design, dreamed up by renowned Greek art collector, Dakis Joannou. —Monica Mendal, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2025

Persist, Persist, Persist Many of us can dream up clever ideas, but few of us have the persistence to see them through to actualization. —Wilson Luna, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025

The series creator apparently dreamt up the outrageous plotline for the season while location scouting in Thailand. —Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 2 Apr. 2025

That the movie’s aesthetic has etched itself so deeply into our collective consciousness owes, in large part, to Syd Mead, the legendary concept artist and industrial designer who dreamed up the film’s decaying Los Angeles — a neo-noir visual cityscape that felt both distant and just within reach. —Leslie Katz, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dream up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup