reverie
a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
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.
Origin of reverie
1- Sometimes rev·er·y .
Other words for reverie
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How to use reverie in a sentence
The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.
He flashes with anger—especially when his reveries are interrupted—dwells on death, and experiences curious lapses of memory.
Has not one with this most respectable weed, this prime havana, the concomitants of a thousand reveries?
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The highest themes which can elevate or engross the mind of man claimed her profound and delighted reveries.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottProbably he lays hold of the elements of experience and casts them into a seeming retort of reveries.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
In fact, the pressing and tender solicitations of his mother could alone arouse him from his apathy or his gloomy reveries.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence | Eugne SueWe see the different superstitions borrowing from each other their abstract reveries and their ceremonies.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean Meslier
British Dictionary definitions for reverie
revery
/ (ˈrɛvərɪ) /
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
Origin of reverie
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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