reverie
A state of dreaming while awakeA state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
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» Tom snapped out of his reverie.
Tom erwachte aus seinem Tagtraum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Examples
10 sentencesTom snapped out of his reverie.
deTom erwachte aus seinem Tagtraum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
It's a psychedelic reverie of patterns and colors.
He had fallen into a reverie, with the rose between his fingers.
Meaning
3 senses(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
(countable, uncountable)An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
Träumerei, Fantasie
(archaic)A caper, a frolic; merriment.
Origin
Borrowed from French rêverie. From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from OBorrowed 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: reveriesSynonyms
9 synonyms- absentminded dreaming while awake:reverydaydreamdaydreamingoneirismair castlecastle in the aircastle in Spain
- an abstracted state of absorption:revery
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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