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reverie
[rev-uh-ree]
noun
a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing.
lost in reverie.
Synonyms: ,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.
reverie
/ ˈɛəɪ /
noun
an act or state of absent-minded daydreaming
to fall into a reverie
a piece of instrumental music suggestive of a daydream
archaica fanciful or visionary notion; daydream
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of reverie1
Example Sentences
Now, shaken from a reverie, reality collides with illusion at the languid pace of a stream.
The artists and activists, Mexican immigrants in a border town on the Rio Grande, tilt at policies targeting not only their families and neighbors but their bodies — amid sequences of chaotic abandon and stargazing reverie.
But as he travels home on the boat, shutting out the world with giant sunglasses and a baggy hoodie, Lochlan doesn’t really seem to have learned anything from his reverie.
When Lennon presented McCartney with “Strawberry Fields Forever,” a woozy reverie loosely based on his childhood, McCartney wrote his own memory piece, “Penny Lane.”
It was hard to think about the things I really valued while I veered into sexual reverie about the landlord.
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