Associations to the word «Reveille»

Wiktionary

REVEILLE, noun. (military) The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.

Dictionary definition

REVEILLE, noun. (military) signal to wake up.
REVEILLE, noun. A signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats