REVERIE
\ɹˈɛvəɹˌi], \ɹˈɛvəɹˌi], \ɹ_ˈɛ_v_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of REVERIE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A state of waking dreaminess; a loose irregular train of thoughts occurring in musing or meditation; extravagant conceit of the fancy.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Aphelxia.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [French] A kind of waking dream; loose musing; unconscious meditation; state in which the mind abandons itself without active control over the subjects or processes of thought, to the suggestions of fancy and associations of imagination, memory, &c.;— a romantic vision; vain dream; chimera;— absent or dreamy state of mind.
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