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rev⋅er⋅ie

  [rev-uh-ree]
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–noun
1. a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
2. a daydream.
3. a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea: reveries that will never come to fruition.
4. Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.
Also, revery.

Origin:
1325–75; ME < OF reverie, deriv. of rever to speak wildly. See rave, -ery

Synonyms:
1. abstraction, brown study.
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rev·er·ie   (rěv'ə-rē)   
n.  
  1. A state of abstracted musing; daydreaming.
  2. A daydream: "I felt caught up in a reverie of years long past" (William Styron).

[Middle English, revelry, from Old French, from rever, to dream.]
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Reverie

Rev"er*ie\, Revery \Rev"er*y\, n.; pl. Reveries. [F. r['e]verie, fr. r[^e]ver to dream, rave, be light-headed. Cf. Rave.]

1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." --Tennyson.

When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. --Locke.

2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]

There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds]. --Addison.
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Language Translation for : reverie
Spanish: ensueño,
German: die Träumerei,
Japanese: 夢想
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reverie 
c.1366, "wild conduct, frolic," from O.Fr. reverie "revelry, raving, delirium," from resver "to dream, wander, rave," of uncertain origin (also the root of rave). Meaning "daydream" is first attested 1657. As a type of musical composition, it is attested from 1880.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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