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“reveille”
1. A military signal on a drum or a bugle at sunrise: The reveille is used to alert army members to wake up and get ready for their martial activities.
2. Etymology: From French reveillez, "wake up"; from Middle French reveiller, "to awake, to rouse", from re- and eveiller, from Old French esveillier, from Vulgar Latin exvigilare, from ex-, "upward" and Latin vigilare, "to watch".
2. Etymology: From French reveillez, "wake up"; from Middle French reveiller, "to awake, to rouse", from re- and eveiller, from Old French esveillier, from Vulgar Latin exvigilare, from ex-, "upward" and Latin vigilare, "to watch".
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vigi-, vig-
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reveille, revelry
reveille (REV uh lee, REV i lee) (noun)
The blast of a bugle early in the morning which is used to awaken and to summon soldiers or sailors in a camp or garrison to get out of bed and get ready for the day's activities: Officer Jones used a sound system to enhance the reveille for the morning wake-up.
revelry (REV uhl ree) (noun)
Boisterous or noisy merrymaking: At New Years, there is revelry on the streets until the early morning hours.
It was difficult for Chad to respond to reveille this morning after having participated in the revelry last night.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group R; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“reveille”
A signal or sound to alert individuals of the time of day for getting up: Johnathan heard the reveille and longed to ignore it and go back to sleep.
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Words of French origin
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