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reveil

reveil is the rare form of reveille.

Meaning of reveille

Noun

reveille (countable and uncountable, plural reveilles)

  1. The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.
    • A bugler and his brisk reveille woke them most mornings.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 53

Verb

reveil (third-person singular simple present reveils, present participle reveiling, simple past and past participle reveiled)

  1. (obsolete) To reveal, disclose.

Forms of reveil

Noun
pluralreveils
Verb
third-person singular presentreveils
present participlereveiling
past participlereveiled
pastreveiled

Questions about reveil

What does reveil mean?
Reveil means to reveal, disclose.
What is reveil the rare form of?
Reveil is the rare form of reveille.
What part of speech is reveil?
Reveil is a verb.
What is the past tense of reveil?
The past tense of reveil is reveiled.

Words near reveil in the dictionary

  1. revegetation
  2. revegetations
  3. revegetator
  4. revegetators
  5. revehent
  6. reveil
  7. reveiled
  8. reveiling
  9. reveille
  10. reveilles
  11. reveillé

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reveil (page history and authors); reveille (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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