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reverie
(encz) | reverie,snění n: Zdeněk Brož |
Reverie
(gcide) | 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.]
1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing
or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless
reveries." --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
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. --Locke.
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2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]
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There are infinite reveries and numberless
extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish
minds]. --Addison.
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reverie
(wn) | reverie
n 1: absentminded dreaming while awake [syn: reverie,
revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, {air
castle}, castle in the air, castle in Spain]
2: an abstracted state of absorption [syn: reverie, revery] |
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reverie
(encz) | reverie,snění n: Zdeněk Brož |
Reveries
(gcide) | 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.]
1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing
or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless
reveries." --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
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. --Locke.
[1913 Webster]
2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
There are infinite reveries and numberless
extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish
minds]. --Addison.
[1913 Webster] |
reverie
(wn) | reverie
n 1: absentminded dreaming while awake [syn: reverie,
revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, {air
castle}, castle in the air, castle in Spain]
2: an abstracted state of absorption [syn: reverie, revery] |
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