Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - nightmare
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Nightmare
nightmare
~ n 1 a very frightening dream (Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.) 2 a very unpleasant or frightening experience (He kept trying to hold my hand all the time - it was a real nightmare! | nightmare journey/situation etc (=the worst journey etc you can imagine)) (a nightmare sea voyage in a raging storm) 3 something terrible that you fear may happen in the future + of (the nightmare of a nuclear war) nightmare scenario (=the worst or most frightening situation that you can imagine) - nightmarish adj
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(nightmares) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A nightmare is a very frightening dream. All the victims still suffered nightmares... Jane did not eat cheese because it gives her nightmares. N-COUNT 2. If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you mean that it is very frightening and unpleasant. The years in prison were a nightmare. N-COUNT 3. If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you are saying in a very emphatic way that it is irritating because it causes you a lot of trouble. Taking my son Peter to a restaurant was a nightmare... In practice a graduate tax is an administrative nightmare. N-COUNT c darkgreen]emphasis ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from 1night + 1mare Date: 14th century 1. an evil spirit formerly thought to oppress people during sleep 2. a frightening dream that usually awakens the sleeper 3. something (as an experience, situation, or object) having the monstrous character of a ~ or producing a feeling of anxiety or terror • ~ adjective • nightmarish adjective • nightmarishly adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a frightening or unpleasant dream. 2 colloq. a terrifying or very unpleasant experience or situation. 3 a haunting or obsessive fear. Derivatives nightmarish adj. nightmarishly adv. Etymology: an evil spirit (incubus) once thought to lie on and suffocate sleepers: OE m{aelig}re incubus ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. кошмар; страшный сон he had a nightmare —- его мучил кошмар, он увидел страшный сон 2. кошмар, ужас the nightmare of war —- ужасы войны 3. (также N.) фольк. мара, ведьма, душащая спящих 4. в грам. знач. глагола: редк. мучить как кошмар; душить во сне ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- c.1300, "an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation," compounded from night + mare "goblin that causes nightmares, incubus," from O.E. mare, from mera, mжre, from P.Gmc. *maron "goblin," from PIE *mer- "to rub away, harm." Meaning shifted mid-16c. from the incubus to the dream it causes. Sense of "any bad dream" first recorded 1829; that of "very distressing experience" is from 1831. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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