Usually means: Disturbing dreams causing fear, anxiety.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word nightmares:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nightmares: Merriam-Webster
  2. nightmares: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nightmares: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nightmare's, Nightmares, nightmare's, nightmares: Wordnik
  5. nightmares: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nightmares: Wiktionary
  7. nightmares: Dictionary.com
  8. nightmares: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Nightmares (A Flock of Seagulls song), Nightmares (Architects album), Nightmares (Buffy episode), Nightmares (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Nightmares (Omen album), Nightmares, Nightmares, The Nightmares (professional wrestling): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Nightmares: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. nightmares: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Nightmares: Merck Manuals
  3. Nightmares: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Nightmares: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nightmares: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nightmare as well.)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Nightmares)

▸ noun:  a 1983 American horror anthology film directed by Joseph SargentMuir, John Kenneth.
▸ noun:  "Nightmares" is the tenth episode of the first season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
▸ noun:  the debut studio album by British metalcore band Architects.
▸ noun:  the first EP by American heavy metal band Omen.
▸ noun:  (also known as Stage Fright) a 1980 Australian slasher film, directed by John D. Lamond and was Gary Sweet's feature film debut.
▸ noun:  a wrestling tag team consisting of Danny Davis and Ken Wayne.
▸ noun:  "Nightmares" is a song recorded by American singer Chris Brown featuring Jamaican-born Kittitian recording artist Byron Messia, from the former's eleventh studio album 11:11.
▸ noun:  "Nightmares" is a song by Italian rapper Bresh featuring pop rock band Pinguini Tattici Nucleari.


Opposite:
dreams, daydreams, reveries

Phrases:
repeated nightmares, Little Nightmares, Kitchen Nightmares, Little Nightmares II, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, more...

Adjectives:
worst, terrible, recurrent, frequent, horrible, such, own, more, vivid, old, occasional



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Opposite:
dreams, daydreams, reveries

Phrases:
repeated nightmares, Little Nightmares, Kitchen Nightmares, Little Nightmares II, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Freddy's Nightmares, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Nightmares on Wax, The Power of Nightmares, more...

Adjectives:
worst, terrible, recurrent, frequent, horrible, such, own, more, vivid, old, occasional




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