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Definition of Reveille
1. Noun. (military) signal to wake up.
Generic synonyms: Bugle Call
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
2. Noun. A signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise.
Definition of Reveille
1. n. The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
Definition of Reveille
1. Noun. (context: military) The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reveille
1. a morning bugle call [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reveille
Literary usage of Reveille
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919 by George Herbert Clarke (1919)
"Within the holy of your hearts, oh hear the bugles blow — The bugles blow reveille
at the golden gates of morn, And welcome with their clarion ineffable ..."
2. Governors Messages and Letters by Indiana Governor (1922)
"will be beaten ten minutes before the Drummers call which precedes the reveille
and tattoo and these will succeed the drummers call five minutes. ..."
3. Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth by Nora Archibald Smith (1902)
"r The Angler's reveille* What time the rose of dawn is laid across the lips of
night, And all the drowsy little stars have fallen asleep in light; ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"BRET HARTE [1839-1902} 812 THE reveille HARK tI hear the tramp of thousands, And
of armed men the hum; Lo! a nation's hosts have ..."
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