Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: reverie
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɛvɚi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: reverie, revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, air_castle, castle_in_the_air, castle_in_Spain
    Meaning: absentminded dreaming while awake
  • Synonyms: reverie, revery
    Meaning: an abstracted state of absorption
Usage examples
  • Sunk into a gloomy reverie
  • She fell into abstracted reverie
  • "Yes, yes," said Melbury, in a reverie.
  • He again lost himself in anxious reverie.
  • At last, with a sigh, as if she waked from a reverie, she laid the ring on the table.
  • A Confederate officer, occupying the next, addressed him, rousing him out of the reverie into which he had fallen.
  • At last he said, "Elsie!" in a soft, low tone that quite made the little girl start and look up into his face; for she, too, had been in a deep reverie.
  • These masses of solemn and discoloured verdure, the faint but splendid lights, and long filmy shadows, the slopes and hollows--my eyes wandered over them all with that strange sense of unreality, and that mingling of sweet and bitter fancy, with which we revisit a scene familiar in very remote and early childhood, and which has haunted a long interval of maturity and absence, like a romantic reverie.