rêveur
French, noun/ʁɛ.vœʁ/
rêveur is spelled R-Ê-V-E-U-R (6 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 20,080th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rêveur is a French masculine noun meaning “a dreamer or idealist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui rêve, qui s’entretient de ses imaginations”.
What does rêveur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea dreamer or idealist
adjective
- 1
dreamy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui rêve ; qui s’entretient de ses imaginations. 2. Qui marque ou qui exprime la rêverie. 3. Qui évoque ou inspire la rêverie.
noun: 1. Personne qui rêve, qui s’entretient de ses imaginations.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rêveur
- rêveurs plural
- rêveuse feminine
- rêveuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rêveur?
- /ʁɛ.vœʁ/
- /ʁe.vœʁ/
- \ʁɛ.vœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rêveur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rêveur in French?
rêveur appears 2.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).