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Revery

Definitions: Revery

Revery

Noun

1. An abstracted state of absorption.

2. Absent-minded dreaming while awake.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "revery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

"Revery" is a common misspelling or typo for: revelry, revere, reverie, revert.


Synonyms: Revery

Synonyms: air castle (n), castle in Spain (n), castle in the air (n), daydream (n), daydreaming (n), oneirism (n), reverie (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Revery

English words defined with "revery": Reveries. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Revery

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Musical Escapes, Vol. 2: Wilderness Revery (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Revery

"Revery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Revery" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: Revery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-r-r-v-y"

-1 letter: every, veery.

-2 letters: eery, ever, eyer, eyre, veer, very.

-3 letters: ere, err, eve, eye, ree, rev, rye, vee.

-4 letters: er, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-r-r-v-y"
 

+1 letter: revelry.

 

+2 letters: recovery, resurvey, reverify.

 

+3 letters: overweary, resurveys, reversely.

 

+4 letters: everywhere, perversely, perversity, redelivery, reservedly, resurveyed, revelatory, reverently, reversibly, veterinary.

 

+5 letters: daredevilry, irrelevancy, pervertedly, predelivery, recursively, rediscovery, resurveying, reverifying, silverberry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Revery


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 76 65 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ...-    .    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "revery"


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