夢ゆめ

noun

dream; hope; aspiration; ambition

A desired future or personal goal. Often used with かなう, 追う, 持つ, and constructions such as 夢は〜ことだ.

• 彼かの女じょの夢ゆめは医い者しゃになることだ。

  Her dream is to become a doctor.

• 子こどものころからの夢ゆめがかなった。

  My childhood dream came true.

noun

pipe dream; daydream; unrealistic aspiration

Used when a wish or plan is unrealistic, impractical, or merely imagined. Depending on context, it can sound dismissive.

• 努ど力りょくせずに成せい功こうしたいなんて、ただの夢ゆめだ。

  Wanting to succeed without effort is just a pipe dream.

• その計けい画かくは資し金きんがなければ夢ゆめに終おわる。

  Without funding, that plan will end as nothing more than a dream.

noun

illusion; delusion; something unreal

A metaphorical use contrasting 夢 with 現実, suggesting that something is not real or that someone is seeing things unrealistically.

• これは夢ゆめではなく現げん実じつだ。

  This is not an illusion; it is reality.

• そんな都つ合ごうのいい夢ゆめは捨すてなさい。

  Let go of that convenient delusion.

noun

fleeting thing; something short-lived

Often appears in figurative expressions where something beautiful, prosperous, or hoped-for vanishes quickly, as if it had been only a dream.

• 祭まつりの三みっ日か間かんは夢ゆめのように過すぎた。

  The three days of the festival passed like a dream.

• 一いち時じの栄えい光こうは夢ゆめのように消きえた。

  The brief glory vanished like a dream.