reverie

or rev·er·y

[ rev-uh-ree ]
/ ˈrɛv ə ri /

noun

a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
a daydream.
a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea: reveries that will never come to fruition.
Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.

Origin of reverie

1325–75; Middle English < Old French reverie, derivative of rever to speak wildly. See rave1, -ery

SYNONYMS FOR reverie

1 abstraction, brown study.

Words nearby reverie

reverence, reverend, reverend mother, reverent, reverential, reverie, revers, reversal, reversal film, reversal plate, reversal process

Definition for reveries (2 of 2)

revery
[ rev-uh-ree ]
/ ˈrɛv ə ri /

noun, plural rev·er·ies.

reverie.

Words related to reveries

fantasy, meditation, contemplation, trance, abstraction, absorption, study, muse, thought, detachment, musing, dreaming, inattention, trip, preoccupation, woolgathering, phantasy, pensiveness, dreaminess

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British Dictionary definitions for reveries

reverie

revery

/ (ˈrɛvərɪ) /

noun plural -eries

an act or state of absent-minded daydreaming to fall into a reverie
a piece of instrumental music suggestive of a daydream
archaic a fanciful or visionary notion; daydream

Word Origin for reverie

C14: from Old French resverie wildness, from resver to behave wildly, of uncertain origin; see rave 1