Dreamer vs. Sleeper — What's the Difference?

One that dreams.

One that sleeps

A visionary.

A sleeping car.

An idealist.

Often sleepers Children's pajamas, usually with legs that cover the feet.

A habitually impractical person.

One that achieves unexpected recognition or success, as a racehorse or movie.

One who dreams.

A spy or saboteur who is planted in an enemy country and who lives unobtrusively as a citizen of that country until activated into clandestine operations by a prearranged signal.

Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.

A horizontal structural member on or near the ground that supports weight.

Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae.

Chiefly British A railroad crosstie.

(Chelidoptera tenebrosa)

Any of various chiefly tropical fishes of the family Eleotridae of fresh, brackish, and shallow marine waters, resembling the gobies but without fused pelvic fins and noted for their habit of lying immobile.

One who dreams.

Someone who sleeps.

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

That which lies dormant, as a law.

Someone who is dreaming

A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.

Someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations

A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.

A person who escapes into a world of fantasy

A railway sleeping car.

A sleeper hold.

Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.

A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae.

A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).

A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.

(slang) An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.

(slang) A sedative.

A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.

A railroad tie.

(carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.

(nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.

(nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

(rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.

One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.

That which lies dormant, as a law.

A sleeping car.

An animal that hibernates, as the bear.

A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).

Something lying in a reclining posture or position.

One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.

One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.

One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

A rester who is sleeping

A spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal

An unexpected achiever of success;

One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;

A passenger car that has berths for sleeping

A piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed

Tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water

An unexpected hit;