Reveille

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reveille \Re*veil"le\, n. [F. r['e]veil, fr. r['e]veiller to
     awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake,
     watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken
     by mistake from the French imper. r['e]veillez,2d pers. pl.
     See {Vigil}.] (Mil.)
     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. "Sound a reveille."
     --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           For at dawning to assail ye
           Here no bugles sound reveille.           --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reveille
       n 1: (military) signal to wake up [syn: {wake-up signal}]
       2: a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a
          bugle call at sunrise

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "reveille":
     Angelus, Angelus bell, alarm, alarum, arousal, awakening,
     battle cry, birdcall, bugle call, call, last post, moose call,
     rallying cry, rebel yell, rousing, rude awakening, summons, taps,
     trumpet call, war cry, whistle
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  REVEILLE, n.  A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields
  no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.  In the
  American army it is ingeniously called "rev-e-lee," and to that
  pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their
  misfortunes and their sacred dishonor.