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- [rev-uh-ree]
- /ˈrɛv ə ri/
- /ˈrev.ər.i/
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- [rev-uh-ree]
- /ˈrɛv ə ri/
Definitions of reverie word
- noun reverie a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie. 1
- noun reverie a daydream. 1
- noun reverie a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea: reveries that will never come to fruition. 1
- noun reverie Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character. 1
- noun reverie daydream 1
- countable noun reverie A reverie is a state of imagining or thinking about pleasant things, as if you are dreaming. 0
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Origin of reverie
First appearance:
before 1325 One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; Middle English < Old French reverie, derivative of rever to speak wildly. See rave1, -ery
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Parts of speech for Reverie
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reverie popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
reverie usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for reverie
noun reverie
- abstraction — An abstraction is a general idea rather than one relating to a particular object, person, or situation.
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- atlantis — (in ancient legend) a continent said to have sunk beneath the Atlantic Ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
- bemusement — Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
- big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
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