Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A state of abstracted musing; daydreaming.
- noun A daydream.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state of mental abstraction in which more or less aimless fancy predominates over the reasoning faculty; dreamy meditation; fanciful musing.
- noun A waking dream; a brown study; an imaginative, fanciful, or fantastic train of thought; a day-dream.
- noun The object or product of reverie or idle fancy; a visionary scheme, plan, aim, ideal, or the like; a dream.
- noun In music, an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.
- noun rare An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
extravagant conceit of theimagination ; avision .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun absentminded dreaming while awake
- noun an abstracted state of absorption
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bower becomes significant, then, as the externalization of this internal, unreachable environment where any kind of reverie is possible; for Kitty, under constant surveillance, the bower represents a winsome retreat that "possessed such a charm over her senses, as constantly to tranquillize her mind and quiet her spirits," a place which she believed "alone could restore her to herself" (193).
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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He takes refuge in reverie, even turning to his dead mother (Sophia Loren) and influential memories from his youth.
'Nine' is short on a few counts, including dialogue, music 2009
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The inheritance spent, the painters indulge in reverie, romanticizing the past, retreating into what Jung would call the collective unconscious.
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I found myself lost in reverie, listening to the beat of the drum – unpredictable and incoherent mixed with the quick and violent strumming of the Tar.
Jenni's life at the moment Jenni's life at the moment 2008
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Meaning may retreat in reverie, but like the repressed it always returns.
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I found myself lost in reverie, listening to the beat of the drum – unpredictable and incoherent mixed with the quick and violent strumming of the Tar.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jenni's life at the moment 2008
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Cornell is talking about these things in reverie: the little store nearby where you can find star fish butterflies in little boxes driftwood and in the antiques store the things from Asia inlaid wood
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I'm so lost in reverie that the pole almost flies out of my hand.
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I'm so lost in reverie that the pole almost flies out of my hand.
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He has been scouting ahead, in search of game, and now, as he takes his time returning, his reverie is interrupted by the sight of another rider heading toward the wagons.
Telofy commented on the word reverie
The name I gave my computer.
December 23, 2008
whichbe commented on the word reverie
I named my computer slurvian.
December 23, 2008
yarb commented on the word reverie
My laptop is called Boxer and my desktop Ursula.
December 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word reverie
I would have named my computer, but it never comes when I call it anyway.
December 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word reverie
My computer answers when I call it by its name:
telofy@reverie:~$ ping reverie
PING reverie (127.0.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from reverie (127.0.1.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
December 23, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word reverie
But we went back to the Abbey, and sat on,
So much the gathering darkness charmed: we sat
But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie,
Perchance upon the future man: the walls
Blackened about us, bats wheeled, and owls whooped,
And gradually the powers of the night,
That range above the region of the wind,
Deepening the courts of twilight broke them up
Through all the silent spaces of the worlds,
Beyond all thought into the Heaven of Heavens.
Tennyson, The Princess (Conclusion)
June 10, 2009