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

Released in June of 2020, Jessie Ware’s disco-inspired What’s Your Pleasure? was actually made over the two years preceding it, but it might as well have been dreamed up in the handful of months between the March shutdowns and the summer doldrums. —Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025

In the one-minute trailer, Kian dreams up the island in sketches that come to life on the small platform that features a colorful climbing wall on the floating barge in the middle of the ocean. —Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2025

Photographer: Colton Moore; Architect: SOK Natural beauty takes center stage in the modern mountain homes dreamed up by Base Camp Design. —Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Feb. 2025

Originally released in 2015, this collection reinvents two interpretations of the beloved Monogram Flower, which Georges-Louis Vuitton first dreamt up in 1896. —Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 3 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