"pipe-dream" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From pipe dream (noun).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreams",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreaming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreamed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreamed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 April, Cole Porter, “Around the World in Eighty Days [Pipe Dreaming]”, in Robert Kimball, editor, The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 378, column 1:",
          "text": "Love is life sublime, / Ev'ry moment that I'm / Only wasting my time / Pipe dreaming of you, / Pipe dreaming of you, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work; to dream of a near impossibility."
      ],
      "id": "en-pipe-dream-en-verb-4NOoFxB~",
      "links": [
        [
          "have",
          "have#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "desire",
          "desire#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "unlikely",
          "unlikely"
        ],
        [
          "materialize",
          "materialize"
        ],
        [
          "imagine",
          "imagine#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "plan",
          "plan#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "dream",
          "dream#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "near",
          "near#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "impossibility",
          "impossibility"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work; to dream of a near impossibility."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work",
          "word": "nähdä toiveunta"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work",
          "word": "uneksia"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpaɪpdriːm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpaɪpˌdrim/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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  "word": "pipe-dream"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From pipe dream (noun).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreams",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreaming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreamed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pipe-dreamed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 April, Cole Porter, “Around the World in Eighty Days [Pipe Dreaming]”, in Robert Kimball, editor, The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 378, column 1:",
          "text": "Love is life sublime, / Ev'ry moment that I'm / Only wasting my time / Pipe dreaming of you, / Pipe dreaming of you, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work; to dream of a near impossibility."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "have",
          "have#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "desire",
          "desire#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "unlikely",
          "unlikely"
        ],
        [
          "materialize",
          "materialize"
        ],
        [
          "imagine",
          "imagine#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "plan",
          "plan#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "dream",
          "dream#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "near",
          "near#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "impossibility",
          "impossibility"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work; to dream of a near impossibility."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈpaɪpdriːm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈpaɪpˌdrim/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work",
      "word": "nähdä toiveunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work",
      "word": "uneksia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pipe-dream"
}