reveille

See also: réveille and réveillé

English

WOTD – 22 May 2010, 22 May 2011

Etymology

From French réveillez, imperative form of réveiller (“to wake”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvæ.li/
• (US, Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛ.və.li/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

reveille (countable and uncountable, plural reveilles)

1. (military) The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.
   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 53:

     A bugler and his brisk reveille woke them most mornings.

Translations

the sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers

• Armenian: ցայգանվագ (hy) (cʻayganvag)
• Bulgarian: утринна заря f (utrinna zarja)
• Catalan: diana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 起床號 / 起床号 (zh) (qǐchuánghào), 晨號 / 晨号 (chénhào)

• Czech: budíček (cs) m
• Danish: reveille (da) c
• Finnish: herätys (fi), aamusoitto
• French: diane (fr) f, réveil (fr) m
• German: Wecken (de) n, Weckruf (de) m
• Greek: εγερτήριο (el) n (egertírio)
• Hungarian: ébresztő (hu)
• Italian: diana, sveglia (it)
• Japanese: (horn) 起床らっぱ (きしょうらっぱ, kishō rappa), (drum) 起床太鼓 (きしょうたいこ, kishō taiko), 朝礼 (ja) (ちょうれい, chōrei)
• Norwegian: revelje m
• Portuguese: alvorada (pt) f
• Russian: у́тренняя заря́ f (útrennjaja zarjá) (scout or pioneer camp), побу́дка (ru) f (pobúdka), подъём (ru) m (podʺjóm)
• Slovak: budíček (sk) m
• Spanish: diana (es)
• Swedish: revelj (sv) c, väckning (sv)
• Tagalog: diyana