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What is the difference between dreamed and dreamt?

dreamed | dreamt |

Dreamt is a alternative form of dreamed.



As verbs the difference between dreamed and dreamt

is that dreamed is past tense of dream while dreamt is past tense of dream.

As an adjective dreamt is

{{l/en|imagined|Imagined}} or only {{l/en|extant}} in a {{l/en|dream}} or dreams.

dreamed

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (irregular form)

Verb

(head)
  • (dream)
  • * 1952 , (Ernest Hemingway), (The Old Man and the Sea) :
  • He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains.

    dreamt

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dream)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • or dreams.
  • Derived terms

    *