1
: a signal to get up mornings
2
: a bugle call at about sunrise signaling the first military formation of the day
also
: the formation so signaled
Examples of reveille in a Sentence
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Luggage lined up in Dallas terminals like dwarf soldiers in a nightmare reveille.
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Dan Zak, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
The two-minute silence across the U.K. marked the end of the service, along with a reveille, the national anthem, and a royal piper playing a lament.
—Time, 19 Sep. 2022
Fort Sam Houston Museum Director Jacqueline Davis noted that as early as the 1840s, armed forces used a drum roll with reveille after sunrise and retreat at sunset to gather the troops for roll call.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 5 Feb. 2020
Inmates in Theresienstadt are forced to stand in the freezing November cold during morning reveille: The camp commandant wants to test out a little theory he’s developed about the effects of hypothermia.
—Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2020
Two hundred and forty-one marines, most of them asleep because reveille was still eight minutes away, were killed.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019
Her command is also a reveille, though, summoning the age-old Disney work ethic.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
Those rehearsals have been, in good reveille fashion, in full swing by 7:30 in the morning.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
Codie Williams has been a bugler at the barracks, the only Marine post in the country to still blow a live horn for the daily calls of reveille, church, chow, etc.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
Dan Zak, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
The two-minute silence across the U.K. marked the end of the service, along with a reveille, the national anthem, and a royal piper playing a lament.
—Time, 19 Sep. 2022
Fort Sam Houston Museum Director Jacqueline Davis noted that as early as the 1840s, armed forces used a drum roll with reveille after sunrise and retreat at sunset to gather the troops for roll call.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 5 Feb. 2020
Inmates in Theresienstadt are forced to stand in the freezing November cold during morning reveille: The camp commandant wants to test out a little theory he’s developed about the effects of hypothermia.
—Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2020
Two hundred and forty-one marines, most of them asleep because reveille was still eight minutes away, were killed.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019
Her command is also a reveille, though, summoning the age-old Disney work ethic.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
Those rehearsals have been, in good reveille fashion, in full swing by 7:30 in the morning.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
Codie Williams has been a bugler at the barracks, the only Marine post in the country to still blow a live horn for the daily calls of reveille, church, chow, etc.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
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reveille
noun
rev·eil·le
ˈrev-ə-lē 
1
: a signal to get up in the morning
2
: a bugle call at about sunrise signaling the first military formation of the day
Etymology
from French réveillez "wake up!"
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