/rev"euh ree/ , n.
1. a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
2. a daydream.
3. a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea: reveries that will never come to fruition.
4. Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.
Also, revery .
[ 1325-75; ME reverie, deriv. of rever to speak wildly. See RAVE, -ERY ]
Syn. 1. abstraction, brown study.