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Definition: Reveille |
ReveilleNoun1. (military) signal to wake up. 2. A signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reveille" was first used: 1644. (references) |
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Satire | REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. In the American army it is ingeniously called "rev-e-lee," and to that pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their misfortunes and their sacred dishonor. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Reveille [re-vay'-ya]. The beat of drum at daybreak to warn the sentries that they may forbear from challenging, as the troops are awake. (French, réveiller, to awake.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: ReveilleSynonym: wake-up signal (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry; battle cry, rallying cry; angelus; reveille; sacring bell, sanctus bell. |
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Crosswords: Reveille |
| English words defined with "reveille": Levet ♦ Morning gun. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "reveille": Vigil. (references) |
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Lyrics | And now the company jumps when he plays reveille. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) And the company jumps when he plays reveille. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) Woah, woah, he wakes 'em up when he plays reveille. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reveille with Beverly (1943) Das große Wecken Reveille (1925) Reveille (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U. S. Army Camp Hospital Number 45, Aix-les-Bain, France. : Enlisted personnel at Reveille in front of hospital. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | How to beat reveille ; Helpful hints no. 12. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | It's reveille in America! / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reveille. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The reveille on the line of battle. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reveille, Field Camp 68th Inf. Brigade, 34th Div., Tyrone, Burro Mts., N.M., elevation 5890 ft., May 1918, Col. Erle D. Luce, C.O. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Reveille" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.95% of the time. "Reveille" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.95% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reveille": beat the reveille ♦ sound the reveille ♦ soundings of reveille. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
reveille | 184 | cloverdale reveille | 3 |
lyrics reveille | 16 | reveille wav | 3 |
lsu reveille | 7 | reveille tab | 3 |
reveille tv | 6 | alarm clock reveille | 2 |
music reveille sheet | 5 | club reveille | 2 |
music reveille | 5 | forum reveille | 2 |
reveille band | 4 | music reveille trumpet | 2 |
llc reveille | 4 | guitar reveille tab | 2 |
park reveille | 4 | military reveille | 2 |
lyrics plastic reveille | 4 | bleed reveille sky | 2 |
bugle call reveille | 4 | park reveille spm | 2 |
reveille mp3 | 4 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "reveille"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sinjal i zgjimit. (various references) | |
Arabic | تبويق الاستيقاظ, إيقاظ (awakening), إنهاض. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заря (illumination, morning, retreat, rouse). (various references) | |
Czech | budíèek. (various references) | |
Farsi | طبل بیدارباش . (various references) | |
French | réveil (reawakening, revival). (various references) | |
German | Wecken (arouse, awake, awaked, awaken, awoken, bring back, call forth, create, excite, kindle, prompt, revive, rouse, spark, to awake, wake, wake up, waken, waking-up time). (various references) | |
Greek | εγερτήριο (getting up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קריא" ל"שכמ", "שכמ" (early rising). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ébresztő (callboy, gunfire). (various references) | |
Italian | sveglia (alarm, alarm clock, alarmclock, wake-up, waking up). (various references) | |
Manx | dooishtey (evocation, evoke, revive, rouse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eveilleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | toque de alvorada (rouse), alvorada (dawn, morn, morning, rouse). (various references) | |
Romanian | zori (bustle, cock crow, crowd, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, hasten, hurry, hustle, morning, press, quicken, rush, spur, spur on, urge), deşteptare (rising, rouse, rousing), deştepta (arouse, awake, awaken, call, call up, enkindle, enliven, evoke, knock up, raise, rouse, wake). (various references) | |
Russian | побудка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | znak za ustajanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | toque de diana (rouse). (various references) | |
Swedish | revelj. (various references) | |
Turkish | kalk borusu (clarion call, rouse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | побудка. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ex-. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | re-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reveille": reveilles. (additional references) | |
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"Reveille" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crevelle, merveille, Ravelli, Refiloe, reveil, reveile, reveiled, revelie, revelle, revellie, Revilla, Reville, Riviello, Treville. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "reveille" (pronounced 'Re*veil"le'): Amole, Ancile, Atole, AXLE, boule, Campanile, Capelle, Carpale, Chambranle, Cubile, Dadle, finale, Gisle, Medle, Mesopodiale, Metapodiale, molle, Pastorale, Peele, Pellile, Phyle, Propodiale, Radiale, rationale, Secale, Strikle, tamale, Thule, Tule, Ule, Weroole. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-l-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: eviller, leveler, relieve. | |
-2 letters: eelier, eviler, levier, liever, releve, relive, revile, veiler. | |
-3 letters: eerie, elver, ervil, iller, levee, level, lever, lieve, liver, livre, reeve, reive, revel, rille, viler. | |
-4 letters: ever, evil, leer, lier, lire, live, reel, riel, rile, rill, rive, veer, veil, vier, vile, vill, virl. | |
-5 letters: eel, ell, ere, eve, ill, ire, lee, lei. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-l-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: reveilles. | |
+2 letters: relievable, relievedly. | |
+3 letters: bedrivelled, deliverable, reflexively, repleviable. | |
+4 letters: reflectively, unrelievedly. | |
+5 letters: overembellish, reverentially, undeliverable. | |
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