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Definition of reverie in English: reverienoun ˈrɛv(ə)riˈrɛv(ə)ri 1A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream. a knock on the door broke her reverie mass noun I slipped into reverie Example sentencesExamples - Credo knocked Dan out of his reverie with a jab to his ribs.
- A good deal of waking life is punctuated by daydreams, reveries, and fantasies in which the mind withdraws to contemplate an interior landscape.
- Having been picked up by a black cab from the Hilton Hotel, where I had been watching the pugilists weigh-in on Friday afternoon, my reverie was soon rather rudely interrupted.
- The laughter of my children finally broke my reverie.
- This slight premise is barely spelled out before each of the guests drift into reveries illustrating how they've arrived at this point in their lives.
- The column is so full of nostalgia and reveries that it's a bit hard to locate the argument, but I think this paragraph is it.
- I shook my head again to get out of my fanciful reverie.
- Trains however, sway gently through the landscape and lull one into a pleasant reverie.
- It conjures up old reveries of carnivals and roadside zoos, sideshows and state fairs - huge tents fetid with the sweet stench of anticipation.
- Should you on your journey be startled out of your reveries by marauding dogs snapping and barking at your heels, take note of these guidelines, they may be of help.
- It's best not to stare at children too hard these days, but listening to them I found myself in some kind of reverie for my own lost youth.
- It's not every day that I'm jolted out of a lazy reverie by an estate agent and a potential purchaser standing in the middle of my bedroom, admiring the view from the window.
- At those times I enter one of those far off reveries, the kind that lead people to say nervously, ‘Penny for your thoughts.’
- Who was the fraud, the vicious self-appointed censor, or the artist who toiled daily to transmit to future ages his graceful and winning reveries?
- I was drifting off into reveries of one sort or another, when I heard a voice.
- Mark's reveries turn to the minor humiliations he will be able to impose on his flatmate if he gets the job.
- In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
- My pleasant reverie was broken by Mike tugging at my arm and pleading: ‘Can I have a bike, Dad, please?’
- But the mechanic interrupts the reverie to explain that the repair is going to take longer and cost more than expected.
- Morrison rouses himself out of his beery reverie.
Synonyms daydream, daydreaming, trance, fantasy, vision, fancy, hallucination, musing inattention, inattentiveness, wool-gathering, preoccupation, obliviousness, engrossment, absorption, self-absorption, absent-mindedness, abstraction, lack of concentration, lack of application Scottish dwam - 1.1Music An instrumental piece suggesting a dreamy or musing state.
his own compositions can move from impressionist reveries to an orchestral chordal approach Example sentencesExamples - Certainly the singer could hardly make a bigger contrast with the leader's light-footed oud playing or Mirabassi's clarinet reveries, at times hardly seeming to disturb the air.
- The album splits between twisted, skewed rock anthems and eerie reveries such as the whispery ‘Someone's in the Wolf’.
- Sal describes the jazz reverie of the pianist, Slim Galliard.
- 1.2archaic A fanciful or impractical idea or theory.
he defended and explained all the reveries of astrology Example sentencesExamples - Which brought me again to my whole reverie about steel: As much as we prize things in this culture, we do not much fetishize the process by which they were made.
- We now take a more cynical, or at least a more bemused, view of such analogistic reveries, for we recognize that the cosmos, in all its grandness, does not exist for us or as a mirror of our centrality in the scheme of universal things.
- We well know the small influence these gentry exert upon our society, and how the technicians of every order distrust them and rightly refuse to take their reveries seriously.
- More painful by far than reveries of the uncharted future is the thought of the shut and sealed annals of the past.
- Yet there is also no denying the fact that most of these fancy reveries were introduced into China quite late, since the 1930s.
Origin Early 17th century: from obsolete French resverie, from Old French reverie 'rejoicing, revelry', from rever 'be delirious', of unknown ultimate origin. Definition of reverie in US English: reverienounˈrɛv(ə)riˈrev(ə)rē 1A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream. a knock on the door broke her reverie Example sentencesExamples - It conjures up old reveries of carnivals and roadside zoos, sideshows and state fairs - huge tents fetid with the sweet stench of anticipation.
- But the mechanic interrupts the reverie to explain that the repair is going to take longer and cost more than expected.
- Should you on your journey be startled out of your reveries by marauding dogs snapping and barking at your heels, take note of these guidelines, they may be of help.
- I shook my head again to get out of my fanciful reverie.
- Mark's reveries turn to the minor humiliations he will be able to impose on his flatmate if he gets the job.
- It's best not to stare at children too hard these days, but listening to them I found myself in some kind of reverie for my own lost youth.
- I was drifting off into reveries of one sort or another, when I heard a voice.
- In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
- This slight premise is barely spelled out before each of the guests drift into reveries illustrating how they've arrived at this point in their lives.
- The laughter of my children finally broke my reverie.
- Trains however, sway gently through the landscape and lull one into a pleasant reverie.
- At those times I enter one of those far off reveries, the kind that lead people to say nervously, ‘Penny for your thoughts.’
- Having been picked up by a black cab from the Hilton Hotel, where I had been watching the pugilists weigh-in on Friday afternoon, my reverie was soon rather rudely interrupted.
- My pleasant reverie was broken by Mike tugging at my arm and pleading: ‘Can I have a bike, Dad, please?’
- Who was the fraud, the vicious self-appointed censor, or the artist who toiled daily to transmit to future ages his graceful and winning reveries?
- Morrison rouses himself out of his beery reverie.
- It's not every day that I'm jolted out of a lazy reverie by an estate agent and a potential purchaser standing in the middle of my bedroom, admiring the view from the window.
- A good deal of waking life is punctuated by daydreams, reveries, and fantasies in which the mind withdraws to contemplate an interior landscape.
- The column is so full of nostalgia and reveries that it's a bit hard to locate the argument, but I think this paragraph is it.
- Credo knocked Dan out of his reverie with a jab to his ribs.
Synonyms daydream, daydreaming, trance, fantasy, vision, fancy, hallucination, musing - 1.1Music An instrumental piece suggesting a dreamy or musing state.
Example sentencesExamples - Sal describes the jazz reverie of the pianist, Slim Galliard.
- Certainly the singer could hardly make a bigger contrast with the leader's light-footed oud playing or Mirabassi's clarinet reveries, at times hardly seeming to disturb the air.
- The album splits between twisted, skewed rock anthems and eerie reveries such as the whispery ‘Someone's in the Wolf’.
- 1.2archaic A fanciful or impractical idea or theory.
Example sentencesExamples - Which brought me again to my whole reverie about steel: As much as we prize things in this culture, we do not much fetishize the process by which they were made.
- We now take a more cynical, or at least a more bemused, view of such analogistic reveries, for we recognize that the cosmos, in all its grandness, does not exist for us or as a mirror of our centrality in the scheme of universal things.
- We well know the small influence these gentry exert upon our society, and how the technicians of every order distrust them and rightly refuse to take their reveries seriously.
- Yet there is also no denying the fact that most of these fancy reveries were introduced into China quite late, since the 1930s.
- More painful by far than reveries of the uncharted future is the thought of the shut and sealed annals of the past.
Origin Early 17th century: from obsolete French resverie, from Old French reverie ‘rejoicing, revelry’, from rever ‘be delirious’, of unknown ultimate origin. |