English-Thai Dictionary

reverie

N การ ฝันกลางวัน  ห้วง ความนึกคิด  abstraction daydream kan-fan-klang-wan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REVERIE

[See Revery. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

REVERIE; REVERY

Rev "er *ie, Rev "er *y, n.; pl. Reveries. Etym: [F. réverie, fr. rêver 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. 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.

 

2. An extravagant concient of the fancy; a vision. [R.] There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds ]. Addison.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

reverie

rev er ie |ˈrevərē ˈrɛv (ə )ri | ▶noun a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream: a knock on the door broke her reverie | I slipped into reverie. • Music an instrumental piece suggesting a dreamy or musing state. • archaic a fanciful or impractical idea or theory. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete French resverie, from Old French reverie ‘rejoicing, revelry, ’ from rever ‘be delirious, ’ of unknown ultimate origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

reverie

reverie |ˈrɛv (ə )ri | ▶noun a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream: a knock on the door broke her reverie | [ mass noun ] : I slipped into reverie. • Music an instrumental piece suggesting a dreamy or musing state. • archaic a fanciful or impractical idea or theory. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete French resverie, from Old French reverie ‘rejoicing, revelry ’, from rever ‘be delirious ’, of unknown ultimate origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

reverie

reverie noun she was startled out of her reverie by a loud crash: daydream, daydreaming, trance, musing; inattention, inattentiveness, woolgathering, preoccupation, absorption, abstraction, lack of concentration.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

reverie

reverie noun she was startled out of her reverie by a loud crash: daydream, daydreaming, trance, fantasy, vision, fancy, hallucination, musing; inattention, inattentiveness, wool-gathering, preoccupation, obliviousness, engrossment, absorption, self-absorption, absent-mindedness, abstraction, lack of concentration, lack of application; Scottish dwam.

 

Duden Dictionary

Reverie

Re ve rie Substantiv, feminin , die |Rever ie |die Reverie; Genitiv: der Reverie, Plural: die Reverien lateinisch-vulgärlateinisch -französisch französische Bezeichnung für: Träumerei elegisch-träumerisches Instrumentalstück, besonders Klavierstück der Romantik

 

French Dictionary

rêverie

rêverie n. f. nom féminin Images, associations qui viennent à l ’esprit lorsqu ’on est éveillé. SYNONYME imagination ; songerie . Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec les mots suivants: • cauchemar, rêve pénible; • rêve, images qui viennent à l ’esprit pendant le sommeil; • songe, rêve dont on tire des présages.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

reverie

rev er ie -er y /rév (ə )ri /名詞 複 -ies 1 U C ｟かたく ｠夢想, 幻想, 空想 ▸ be lost in (a ) reverie 空想にふける 2 C 〘楽 〙幻想曲 .