reverie

[ rev-uh-ree ]
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noun
  1. a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.

  2. a daydream.

  1. a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea: reveries that will never come to fruition.

  2. Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.

Origin of reverie

1
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Old French reverie, resverie, derivative of rever, resver, raver “to speak wildly, wander, dream”; see origin at rave1, -ery
  • Sometimes rev·er·y .

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British Dictionary definitions for reverie

reverie

revery

/ (ˈrɛvərɪ) /


nounplural -eries
  1. an act or state of absent-minded daydreaming: to fall into a reverie

  2. a piece of instrumental music suggestive of a daydream

  1. archaic a fanciful or visionary notion; daydream

Origin of reverie

1
C14: from Old French resverie wildness, from resver to behave wildly, of uncertain origin; see rave 1

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