Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.

    Tagtraum

    забытьёzabytʹjó, грёзыgrjózy

    absentminded dreaming while awake

  2. (countable, uncountable)An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.

    Träumerei, Fantasie

  3. (archaic)A caper, a frolic; merriment.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Tom snapped out of his reverie.

    deTom erwachte aus seinem Tagtraum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. It's a psychedelic reverie of patterns and colors.

  3. He had fallen into a reverie, with the rose between his fingers.

  4. Tom interrupted her reverie.

    ruТом прервал её мечтания. — marafon

  5. At this point in his reverie, the general was interrupted by the sound of the door opening.

    deAn diesem Punkt wurde der General vom Geräusch der sich öffnenden Tür aus seinen Träumereien gerissen. — al_ex_an_der

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
state of dreaming while awake:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
state of dreaming while awake:
conceit of imagination:

Origin

Borrowed from French rêverie. From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from O

Borrowed from French rêverie.

From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave.

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Forms

plural: reveries

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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