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Definitions: Reverie |
ReverieNoun1. Absent-minded dreaming while awake. 2. An abstracted state of absorption. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reverie" was first used: sometime around 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ReverieSynonyms: air castle (n), castle in Spain (n), castle in the air (n), daydream (n), daydreaming (n), oneirism (n), revery (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy; indulge in reverie. |
Dreaming; phrensy, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy; calenture; (delirium); reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism. | |
Inattention | Abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction. |
Abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie. | |
Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping. | |
Incogitancy | Indulge in reverie; (be inattentive). |
Thought | Abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study; (inattention); reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reverie |
| English words defined with "reverie": Brown study ♦ recall ♦ Self-involution. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reverie": BROWN STUDY. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Reverie" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (brown study, day dream, dreaming, reverie). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | All caught up in the reverie (Sailing; performing artist: Christopher Cross) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reverie (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | S.Y. [Steam yacht] Reverie.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Antoine Rivarol | To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. |
John Locke | Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. |
William Ellery Channing | Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | But Mein Herr had relapsed into reverie, and made no further remark. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the fearful reverie into which its presence casts the soul, the awful apparition of the scaffold confounds itself with its horrid work. |
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| "Reverie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reverie" is used about 134 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) | 100% | 134 | 27,488 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reverie": be lost in a reverie ♦ fall into a reverie ♦ in a reverie ♦ indulge in reverie. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
reverie | 30 |
reverie young | 28 |
day in reverie save | 12 |
reverie revue sound | 7 |
reverie yacht | 4 |
debussy reverie | 4 |
reverie review sound | 2 |
intangible reverie | 2 |
pure reverie vanderbilt | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reverie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fantazim, ëndërrim (dream, fancy, fantasy, phantasy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فكرة خيالية, لحن موسيقي حالم, الاستغراق في التفكير الحالم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мечти, замечтаност (languor, wool gathering), замисленост (muse, musing, preoccupation), заблуда (deception, errancy, fallacy, misbelief, mistake, phantom, swiz), блян (daydream, dream). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | snìní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dagdrømmeri (day dream), dagdrømmen (day dream). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gedroom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | revado. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خیال واهی(revery), خیال خام . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | unelma (daydream, dream), haaveilu (dreaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rêverie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Träumerei (daydream, daydreaming, dreaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρεμβασμόσ (muse, musing), ονειροπόληση (daydream). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חלום בהקיץ (daydream). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | álmodozás (daydream, day-dream, musing, star-gazing), ábrándozás (daydream, day-dream, dreaming, wishful thinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fantasticheria (fantasy, phantasy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 夢想 (dream, vision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | むそう (a blank mind, dream, matchless, peerless, unparalleled, vision), ものおもい (anxiety, meditation, pensiveness, thought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jarrood (forget, forgetfulness, leave out, oblivion, overlook). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | everieray sonho (doss, dream, fried egg, gem, shut eye, sinker), fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasmagoria, phantasy, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical), devaneio (abstractedness, day dream, dream, dreamlike, muse, wandering, wool gathering). (various references) reverie (brown study, day dream, dreaming), visare (brown study, day-dreaming, dream, dreaming), vis (chimera, dream, fancy, vision), toropealã (apathy, dreaming, enervation, sleepiness, torpor), gândire (consideration, deliberation, mentation, mind, reflection, thinking, thought, understanding), fantezie (day dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, freak, imagination, make believe, phantasy). (various references) мечтательность (star-gazing). (various references) sanjarenje (daydream, dream, dreaming). (various references) ensueño (day dream, daydream, dream, fantasy, phantasy), ensimismamiento (absorption, brown study, self-absorption, trance). (various references) dagdröm (daydream). (various references) hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, vision, waking dream), hülya, dalgınlık (absence, absence of mind, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, Kef, pensiveness, thoughtfulness, vacancy, vacuity, wandering, woolgathering), dalıp gitme, düş (delusion, dream, fantasy, fiction, pink elephant). (various references) мрія (ambition, dream, fancy, vow), мрійність (dreaminess, stargazing). (various references) sự mơ mộng (brown study, day-dream), sự mơ màng (dream, dreamt, musing), không tưởng (fantastic, utopian). (various references) synfyfyrdod (abstraction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | reverie. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reverie": reveries. (additional references) | |
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"Reverie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Deveria, evaire, Evernia, Raverii, recerie, Reederei, reery, reevesii, refrig, remercie, rererie, reveire, revelie, revelrie, reveree, reverey, Reveron, reversive, reverte, revery, Roherrim, Roserie, Trevereux, Treveri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reverie" (pronounced re"verē) |
| 4 | -e" v er ē | every. |
| 3 | -v er ē | bravery, Calvary, delivery, discovery, ivory, livery, ovary, Savory, silvery, slavery, thievery, unsavory. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-r-r-v" | |
-1 letter: eerier, reiver, revere, riever, verier. | |
-2 letters: eerie, reeve, reive, river. | |
-3 letters: ever, rive, veer, vier. | |
-4 letters: ere, err, eve, ire, ree, rei, rev, vee, vie. | |
-5 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-r-r-v" | |
+1 letter: receiver, reliever, reprieve, rereview, retrieve, reveries, reviewer. | |
+2 letters: deliverer, perceiver, prereview, previewer, receivers, redeliver, relievers, reprieved, reprieves, rereviews, reservice, retrieved, retriever, retrieves, revelries, reviewers. | |
+3 letters: deliverers, intervener, irreverent, perceivers, perversive, preservice, previewers, recoveries, recreative, redelivers, redelivery, regressive, repressive, rereviewed, reserviced, reservices, resilvered, retrievers, reverified, reverifies, reversible, revertible, timeserver. | |
+4 letters: interveners, interviewer, irreflexive, irrelevance, irreverence, overprecise, overrefined, overservice, persevering, predelivery, privateered, redelivered, reinnervate, reinterview, reiterative, rereviewing, retrievable, reverencing, reverential, reversibles, reversioner, timeservers, vinedresser. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 65 72 69 65 |
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