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[ rev -uh -ree ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈrɛv ə ri / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
a daydream.
a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea: reveries that will never come to fruition.
Music . an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.
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Origin of reverie First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Old French reverie, resverie, derivative of rever, resver, raver “to speak wildly, wander, dream”; see origin at rave1 , -ery
SYNONYMS FOR reverie 1 abstraction, brown study.
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Example sentences from the Web for reverie When asked what dessert was like, Goldblum simply pauses, wide-eyed, in reverie .
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Often the reverie rolled on deep into the night, an unflagging, unredundant product of the raconteurial mind.
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Now shaken from his reverie , stunned, Paterno walked over to the golf cart and crouched and shook the hand of the champ.
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My reverie is quickly interrupted: As I stuff the python into the bag, it spews out a variety of secretions.
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The president hung up, holding his cards, which snapped me out of a reverie that this was extreme multitasking even for him.
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Hast thou not often been duped by that pale visionary simulacrum of thought which goes by the name of reverie ?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 | Various
Presently she was awakened from her reverie by the sound of footsteps.
The Imported Bridegroom | Abraham Cahan
At length he sank unconsciously into a reverie , and began to ponder as to what sort of people wanted these productions?
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His reverie absolutely raged; it was only disturbed by her repeated notice and his returned acknowledgments.
The Young Duke | Benjamin Disraeli
His reverie was broken by William Fielding just ridden in from Farnborough.
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British Dictionary definitions for reverie noun plural -eries an act or state of absent-minded daydreaming to fall into a reverie
a piece of instrumental music suggestive of a daydream
archaic a fanciful or visionary notion; daydream
Word Origin for reverie C14: from Old French resverie wildness, from resver to behave wildly, of uncertain origin; see rave 1
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Words related to reverie fantasy, meditation, contemplation, trance, abstraction, absorption, study, muse, thought, detachment, musing, dreaming, inattention, trip, preoccupation, woolgathering, phantasy, pensiveness, dreaminess, absent-mindedness