variants
or less commonly revery
plural reveries
1
: daydream
2
: the condition of being lost in thought
Examples of reverie in a Sentence
I was lost in reverie and didn't realize my flight was boarding until it was almost too late.
Recent Examples on the Web
And she is frequently lost in reveries, revisiting her most famous performances.
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2024
These include a reverie from Martha over her first love in the 1970s, a Vietnam War veteran taken down in operatically tragic fashion by a PTSD hallucination that led him into a burning building.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024
Next week the country will wake up from this reverie, crashing back to the reality of its divided legislature in the wake of recent elections in which the far-right vote increased.
—NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
Pilling argues that Japan is now too internally diverse and too forward-looking to succumb to nationalist reveries about the past.
—Margarita Estévez-Abe, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2014
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2024
These include a reverie from Martha over her first love in the 1970s, a Vietnam War veteran taken down in operatically tragic fashion by a PTSD hallucination that led him into a burning building.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024
Next week the country will wake up from this reverie, crashing back to the reality of its divided legislature in the wake of recent elections in which the far-right vote increased.
—NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
Pilling argues that Japan is now too internally diverse and too forward-looking to succumb to nationalist reveries about the past.
—Margarita Estévez-Abe, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2014
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“Reverie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverie. Accessed 11 Sep. 2024.
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reverie
noun
rev·er·ie
variants
also revery
plural reveries
1
2
: the condition of being lost in thought
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