English to French Meaning of reverie - rêverie

Reverie :

rêverie

noun

rêverie, ravissement, abstraction mentale

Reverie :: rêverieReveries :: reveries

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Definitions of reverie in English

Noun(1) absentminded dreaming while awake(2) an abstracted state of absorption

Examples of reverie in English

(1) Having been picked up by a black cab from the Hilton Hotel, where I had been watching the pugilists weigh-in on Friday afternoon, my reverie was soon rather rudely interrupted.(2) I shook my head again to get out of my fanciful reverie .(3) a knock on the door broke her reverie(4) My pleasant reverie was broken by Mike tugging at my arm and pleading: ├ö├ç├┐Can I have a bike, Dad, please?├ö├ç├û(5) Trains however, sway gently through the landscape and lull one into a pleasant reverie .(6) I slipped into reverie(7) But the mechanic interrupts the reverie to explain that the repair is going to take longer and cost more than expected.(8) Which brought me again to my whole reverie about steel: As much as we prize things in this culture, we do not much fetishize the process by which they were made.(9) Credo knocked Dan out of his reverie with a jab to his ribs.(10) The laughter of my children finally broke my reverie .(11) It's not every day that I'm jolted out of a lazy reverie by an estate agent and a potential purchaser standing in the middle of my bedroom, admiring the view from the window.(12) Morrison rouses himself out of his beery reverie .(13) Sal describes the jazz reverie of the pianist, Slim Galliard.(14) It's best not to stare at children too hard these days, but listening to them I found myself in some kind of reverie for my own lost youth.(15) Yet there is also no denying the fact that most of these fancy reveries were introduced into China quite late, since the 1930s.(16) Certainly the singer could hardly make a bigger contrast with the leader's light-footed oud playing or Mirabassi's clarinet reveries , at times hardly seeming to disturb the air.

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Synonyms

Noun

1. daydream ::

rêverie

3. oneirism ::

oneirism

Different Forms

reverie, reveries

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