prophetic dream

collocation in English

meaningsofpropheticanddream

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prophetic
adjective
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/prəˈfet.ɪk/us
/prəˈfet̬.ɪk/
saying correctly what will happen in ...
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dream
noun[C]
uk
/driːm/us
/driːm/
a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you ...
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(Definition ofpropheticanddreamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Argentille has a crazypropheticdream(195-240).
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The story opens with apropheticdreamof two eagles fighting over a swan, prefiguring the love triangle in the story.
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She reported in her diary that the previous day she had apropheticdreamin which she was wounded in exactly the same place.
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The dramatist may not have even attempted to create an orderly narrative, or perhaps the joyful scenes with the angel are to be interpreted as a sort ofpropheticdream.
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In popular culture dreams could be converted into money by means of translation aids, but in bourgeois circles prophetic dreams assumed the value of a social message.
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Kiyoaki has a third majorpropheticdream.
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For prophetic dreams a boy should cut ten ivy leaves, throw away one and put the rest under his head before he sleeps.
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Prophetic dreams abound, mostly involving giant rats and bats (diggers and angels).
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At the same time he and began to have prophetic dreams.
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Several leaders claim to have chosen sides or determined battle strategy after scrying or receiving visions, portents, or prophetic dreams.
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She also remembers more details about her prophetic dreams.
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She occasionally receives prophetic dreams in the few hours that she sleeps.
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Visions from dreams came in three types: messages from a deity, reflections of the dreamers state of mind or health, and prophetic dreams.
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This mystical calling endows her with dramatically increased physical strength, endurance, agility, accelerated healing, intuition, and a limited degree of clairvoyance, usually in the form of prophetic dreams.
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He often has prophetic dreams.
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