Reveille
[rɪ'vælɪ] or ['rɛvəli]
Definition
(noun.) a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise.
(noun.) (military) signal to wake up.
Checker: Scott--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Checked by Conan
Definition
n. the sound of the drum or bugle at daybreak to awaken soldiers.
Inputed by Evelyn
Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
Editor: Olivia