reverie
See also: rêverie
English
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Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: rĕʹvə-rē, IPA(key): /ˈɹɛvəɹi/
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Noun
reverie (countable and uncountable, plural reveries)
- A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. [1657]
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, Canto VII, lines 107-108
- we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, Canto VII, lines 107-108
- An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
- (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Addison
- If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both.
- (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Addison
Synonyms
- (state of dreaming while awake): air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism
Translations
state of dreaming while awake
conceit of imagination
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See also
- build castles in the air
- woolgather
daydream on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave.
Old French
Romanian
Noun
reverie f (plural reverii)
- reverie, any form of dreaming (e.g. daydreaming, dreaming, and thinking)
Declension
declension of reverie
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) reverie | reveria | (niște) reverii | reveriile |
genitive/dative | (unei) reverii | reveriei | (unor) reverii | reveriilor |
vocative | reverie, reverio | reveriilor |
See also
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