reveille
noun
rev·eil·le ˈre-və-lē 
British ri-ˈva-lē,
or -ˈve-
1
: a signal to get up mornings
2
: a bugle call at about sunrise signaling the first military formation of the day
also : the formation so signaled
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Fort Sam Houston Museum Director Jacqueline Davis noted that as early as the 1840s, armed forces used a drum roll with reveille after sunrise and retreat at sunset to gather the troops for roll call. 
René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 5 Feb. 2020 Inmates in Theresienstadt are forced to stand in the freezing November cold during morning reveille: The camp commandant wants to test out a little theory he’s developed about the effects of hypothermia. Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2020 Two hundred and forty-one marines, most of them asleep because reveille was still eight minutes away, were killed. Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019 Her command is also a reveille, though, summoning the age-old Disney work ethic. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019 Those rehearsals have been, in good reveille fashion, in full swing by 7:30 in the morning. Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018 Codie Williams has been a bugler at the barracks, the only Marine post in the country to still blow a live horn for the daily calls of reveille, church, chow, etc. Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018 April 23 - Caught sleeping after reveille & put on report. Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018 Young Maurice took up the bugle, playing reveille at scout camps. Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018 See More
René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 5 Feb. 2020 Inmates in Theresienstadt are forced to stand in the freezing November cold during morning reveille: The camp commandant wants to test out a little theory he’s developed about the effects of hypothermia. Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2020 Two hundred and forty-one marines, most of them asleep because reveille was still eight minutes away, were killed. Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019 Her command is also a reveille, though, summoning the age-old Disney work ethic. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019 Those rehearsals have been, in good reveille fashion, in full swing by 7:30 in the morning. Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018 Codie Williams has been a bugler at the barracks, the only Marine post in the country to still blow a live horn for the daily calls of reveille, church, chow, etc. Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018 April 23 - Caught sleeping after reveille & put on report. Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018 Young Maurice took up the bugle, playing reveille at scout camps. Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
modification of French réveillez, imperative plural of réveiller to awaken, from Middle French reveiller, from re- + eveiller to awaken, from Vulgar Latin *exvigilare, from Latin ex- + vigilare to keep watch, stay awake — more at vigilant
First Known Use
1644, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
reveille
noun
rev·eil·le ˈre-və-lē
: a signal sounded at about sunrise on a bugle to call soldiers or sailors to duty
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