‘Dream’ once meant joy before it meant a night vision. In Matthew the Greek word is ‘onar’, a dream sent from God.

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Great Expectations Education | SEND Support, Tuition & Resources Explore the history of everyday words through clear, accessible etymology. Words Words Words uncovers how language has travelled through time — from Latin roots to modern speech — connecting meaning, culture, and story in each entry from Great Expectations Education.

Today’s Advent word is ‘praise’—a journey from Latin worth, to Greek joyful speech, to Hebrew shining celebration in ‘hallelujah’.

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‘You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.’
– C.S. Lewis

Not sure about the tea — but the longer the book, the better.

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“Every man who knows how to read… multiplies the ways in which he exists.”
– Aldous Huxley

Spotted on the north coast of Germany: a flash of pink, a beetle, and a reminder that books don’t just inform — they expand.

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‘The world was hers for the reading.’
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A bright bloom, spotted in a corner of Brittany — and a reminder of everything that opens up with a book.

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Crab apples grow along field margins, woodland paths, and old hedgerows. The name doesn’t come from claws, but likely from old Germanic words meaning ‘crooked’ or ‘gnarled’.
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin

A yellow chair, a sea view, and a good book — what more could you need?

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‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even the brightest space feels empty without a shelf or two.

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A book is the best kind of company — whatever the day brings.
‘Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.’
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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“Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls…” – Elif Shafrak

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