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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reverie \Rev"er*ie\, Revery \Rev"er*y\, n.; pl. Reveries. [F. r['e]verie, fr. r[^e]ver to dream, rave, be light-headed. Cf. Rave.]
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A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. ``Rapt in nameless reveries.''
--Tennyson.When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.
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An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]
There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds].
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., reuerye, "wild conduct, frolic," from Old French reverie, resverie "revelry, raving, delirium" (Modern French rêverie), from resver "to dream, wander, rave" (12c., Modern French rêver), of uncertain origin (also the root of rave). Meaning "daydream" is first attested 1650s, a reborrowing from French. As a type of musical composition, it is attested from 1880. Related: Reverist.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context archaic English) A caper, a frolic; merriment. Etymology 2
n. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
WordNet
n. absent-minded dreaming while awake [syn: revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, air castle, castle in the air, castle in Spain]
an abstracted state of absorption [syn: revery]
Wikipedia
Reverie may refer to:
- A daydream or a dreamy state.
- W. R. Bion's psychoanalytic use of "reverie"
Reverie is the official debut recording by The Triffids, released as a 7" extended play in November 1982. Its four tracks were produced by Tim Lambert for Resonant Records.
Reverie is a Mini-LP by Rafael Anton Irisarri, pressed by American label Immune (distributed by Thrill Jockey). It was released worldwide as 12" vinyl on April 20, 2010. It contains two original compositions and a 14-minute rendition of Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli masterpiece Für Alina.
Reverie is a historic Greek Revival mansion built circa 1858 in Marion, Perry County, Alabama. It now serves as a residence and also historic house museum. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the West Marion Historic District and was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey. It is featured in Ralph Hammond's Antebellum Mansions of Alabama, Gregory Hatcher's Reverie Mansion and Gardens, and Jennifer Hale's Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt.
Reverie is a 2011 album by American singer-songwriter Joe Henry. Mojo placed the album at number 50 on its list of the "Top 50 Albums Of 2011".
Rêverie, Op. 24, is an orchestral work composed by Alexander Scriabin in 1898. A typical performance lasts from 3 to 5 minutes. Scriabin, who was a pianist, had never before composed for orchestra, except for a few unpublished works. However, he composed the work in total secrecy, without any advice.
Reverie was a Philadelphia-based jazz fusion quartet, active from 1974 through 1992.
Reverie is the second mixtape by American recording artist Tinashe, first released September 6, 2012 via her official website. The mixtape was released after the release of her debut mixtape In Case We Die which came after a four-year stint as lead singer of dance-pop group The Stunners and her array of non-album singles, including a collaboration with producers OFM, "Artificial People", in 2011.
As executive producer, Tinashe enlisted a variety of musical producers to work with her on the mixtape, including Wes Tarte, BMarz, Nez & Rio, Best Kept Secret, B. Hendrixx, Troobadore, Yektro K-BeatZ, Daughter, XXYYXX, Roc & Mayne, JRB The Producer, besides being executive producer of the mixtape Tinashe also wrote all of the mixtape's songs. Musically, Reverie doesn't stray far from the same PBR&B and alternative hip hop sound that In Case We Die included, the mixtape also touches on several new genres such as electronica, glitch hop, indie pop, post-dubstep and alternative rock.
The mixtape was preceded by the release of the lead single "Stargazing" which was released on August 21, 2012. "Stargazing" became the number one must-hear song on MTV "Buzzworthy" on August 28, 2012. The second single Ecstasy" was released on December 18, 2012 and the final single from the mixtape "Who Am I Working For?", the video for the song was released on March 12, 2013. The album's title track was used during a scene of the American television program Love & Hip Hop.
Reverie received positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the mixtapes "spacey beat and middle eastern influences", with some critics calling it "highly anticipated" and "must listen" and praised Tinashe's vocals. Other critics compared the mixtape to that of Jhene Aiko, The Weeknd and Aaliyah. Commercially the tape fared well, becoming the most downloaded mixtape on DatPiff at the time. The mixtape has been certified Silver with 50,000 downloads. Reverie is Tinashe's most viewed mixtape with over 225,000 views.
Reverie is the third full-length studio album by Cherie Currie. Released on iTunes March 16, 2015. Cherie released the CD version of this album June 5, 2015 on her ebay page cheriecurriedirect. There is a 35-year gap between Cherie's last full-length studio album, 1980's Messin' with the Boys (with Marie Currie), and 2015's Reverie. This is last studio album Kim Fowley produced before his death. Kim helped Cherie release this album to make amends with her after all the money he swindled her out of when she was in the Runaways and for releasing her and Marie's music on Young and Wild without their approval. After Kim's death Cherie's son, Jake Hays, took over producing.
Ex-bandmate, Lita Ford, and Cherie Currie sang the two Runaways' classics as duets. Cherie also recorded a duet with her son, Jake Hays, "Shades of Me".
Usage examples of "reverie".
Inattentive to a conversation, which was passing between the Countess and a Mademoiselle Bearn, her friend, Blanche sat, lost in pleasing reverie, as she watched the clouds floating silently along the blue expanse, now veiling the sun and stretching their shadows along the distant scene, and then disclosing all his brightness.
Lord Pastern was no refuge as he had sunk into a reverie from which he roused himself from time to time only to throw disjointed remarks at no one in particular, and to attack his food with a primitive gusto which dated from his Back-to-Nature period.
At least daily, Proxenus would startle Aedon out of his frequent reveries in the courtyard by whacking him on the head with his makeshift wooden sword, sending him into a chase that would end with the boys racing through the house, wrestling on the hard tile floors and getting underfoot of the long-suffering elderly servants who attempted to maintain order.
An instant later and her voice roused Quarrington from the momentary reverie into which he had fallen.
Victor relapsed into another reverie which lasted so long that even the patience of Shaik Tsin bade fair to fail.
Although on occasions the Traveller seemed to drift off into a reverie, there was a vigour and a sprightliness in his step which, his companions saw by contrast, had been conspicuously absent when he was in the village.
Were I, by any chance, to fall into one of those reveries, with which I have often lost the golden hours at Hamadan, or in our old cave, I should hear, some fine morning, his Sultanship of Roum rattling at my gates.
As my feet strayed through the unpeopled country, my thoughts rambled through the universe, and I was least miserable when I could, absorbed in reverie, forget the passage of the hours.
She was only half awake until the whitter of skeeter blades roused her from her reverie.
I am continually awakened from my reveries by the jargon of an Andalusian peasant who is setting out rose-bushes, and the song of a pretty Andalusian girl who shows the Alhambra, and who is chanting a little romance that has probably been handed down from generation to generation since the time of the Moors.
Furthermore, the Brahminic thinkers and sages were a distinct class of men whose whole lives were absorbed in introspective reveries and metaphysical broodings calculated to stimulate the imagination and arouse to the keenest consciousness all the latent marvels and possibilities of human experience, thus furnishing the most favorable conditions for exactly such a belief as that of transmigration, an endless series of ever varying adventures for the imperishable soul.
I was surprised one warm autumn day after lunch in downtown Greenfield, as I was walking back to campus with my blue blazer slung over my shoulder, to be honked out of my reverie by a huge black Lincoln Navigator that swooshed to the curb next to me and revealed its driver to be the ethereal Naomi Cordier, Associate Professor of Dance, clad, as usual, in something diaphanous and floral.
I was getting carried away with my Dickensian reverie when I was saved by the bell.
She looks up from her reverie: a fairy godmamma in the disguise of a small boy--it was a small boy, was it not?
A realization of his predicament at last supplanted the geologic reveries that had ifiled his mind.