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reverie
[ rev-uh-ree ]
noun
- a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing:
lost in reverie.
Synonyms: brown study, abstraction
- 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.
reverie
/ ˈrɛvərɪ /
noun
- 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
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Origin of reverie1
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Example Sentences
The whole town was in a drunken reverie, singing and dancing to brass bands with the tribal beat of the Basques.
When asked what dessert was like, Goldblum simply pauses, wide-eyed, in reverie.
Often the reverie rolled on deep into the night, an unflagging, unredundant product of the raconteurial mind.
Now shaken from his reverie, stunned, Paterno walked over to the golf cart and crouched and shook the hand of the champ.
My reverie is quickly interrupted: As I stuff the python into the bag, it spews out a variety of secretions.
She poured out some chocolate, took it hurriedly, and quitted the room, leaving her husband in a disheartening reverie.
Miss Winter looked at Etheldred reprovingly, and she shrank into herself, drew apart, and indulged in a reverie.
He seemed to have abandoned himself to a reverie, and to be seeing pleasing visions in the amber bead.
There was a silence of nearly ten minutes, until Isabel, suddenly removing her coat, brought Gwynne out of his reverie.
Tessas reverie was ended by Mr. Hammertons quick step upon the planks.
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