different between thought vs reverie

English

Alternative forms

• thowt (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English thought, itho?t, from Old English þ?ht, ?eþ?ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanht? (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thôt
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• (US) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Homophone: thot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

thought (countable and uncountable, plural thoughts)

1. (countable) Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
2. (uncountable) The operation by which such forms arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
   • a. 1983', Paul Fix (attributed quote)

     The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

3. (uncountable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).

4. (uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

thought

1. simple past tense and past participle of think

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thoughte, thougt, thouhte, thoute
• thogt, thohte, thogh

Etymology

From Old English þ?ht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?xt/, /??u?xt/

Noun

thought (plural thoughtes)

1. product of mental activity

Descendants

• English: thought
• Scots: thocht
• Yola: thaugkt

References

• “thought, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Alternative forms

• rêverie
• revery

Pronunciation

• enPR: r??v?-r?, IPA^(key): /???v??i/

Etymology 1

From French rêverie.

Noun

reverie (countable and uncountable, plural reveries)

1. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. [from 1657]

   Synonyms: castles in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, Canto VII, lines 107-108

     we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]
2. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
   • November 17, 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 225

     If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries , numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both .

Translations

See also

• build castles in the air
• woolgather

Etymology 2

From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave.

Noun

reverie (plural reveries)

1. (archaic) A caper, a frolic; merriment. [mid 14th Century]

Further reading

• daydream on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Old French

Noun

reverie f (oblique plural reveries, nominative singular reverie, nominative plural reveries)

1. Alternative form of resverie

Romanian

Etymology

From French rêverie.

Noun

reverie f (plural reverii)

1. reverie, any form of dreaming (e.g. daydreaming, dreaming, and thinking)

Declension

See also

• visare