different between revenant vs vision

English

Etymology

19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?n?nt/

Noun

revenant (plural revenants)

1. Someone who returns from a long absence.
   • 1886, Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew viii, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:

     They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.

   • 1895 August 31, Daily News 4/7, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:

     The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.

   • 2008, Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature, Camden House, ?ISBN, page 91:

     From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant, who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him: […]

2. A person or thing reborn.
   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, page 184:

     Sometimes […] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.

3. A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     For granting even that Religion were dead; that it had died, half-centuries ago, with unutterable Dubois; or emigrated lately, to Alsace, with Necklace-Cardinal Rohan; or that it now walked as goblin revenant with Bishop Talleyrand of Autun; yet does not the Shadow of Religion, the Cant of Religion, still linger?

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ghost

Translations

Adjective

revenant (comparative more revenant, superlative most revenant)

1. Returning.
   • 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House (2008), page 134:

     On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.

Anagrams

• Tavenner, venerant

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v(?).n??/

Verb

revenant

1. present participle of revenir

Noun

revenant m (plural revenants, feminine revenante)

1. A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
2. A person who returns after a long absence

Further reading

• “revenant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• énervant, vénérant

English

Etymology

From Middle English visioun, from Anglo-Norman visioun, from Old French vision, from Latin v?si? (“vision, seeing”), noun of action from the perfect passive participle visus (“that which is seen”), from the verb vide? (“I see”) + action noun suffix -i?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?zh'?n, IPA^(key): /?v?.?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

vision (countable and uncountable, plural visions)

1. (uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
2. (countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
   • , [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] For to a Vi?ion ?o apparant, Rumor / Cannot be mute […]
3. (countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
4. (countable, by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
5. (countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

6. (countable) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.

7. (countable) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
8. (uncountable) Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.

Synonyms

• (ability): sight, eyesight, view, perception
• (something imaginary): apparition, hallucination, mirage
• (ideal or goal): dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vision (third-person singular simple present visions, present participle visioning, simple past and past participle visioned)

1. (transitive) To imagine something as if it were to be true.
2. (transitive) To present as in a vision.
3. (transitive) To provide with a vision. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (imagine): envision

Derived terms

• envision
• prevision

Anagrams

• Voisin, inviso

Finnish

Noun

vision

1. Genitive singular form of visio.

Anagrams

• voisin

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?si?, from vide? (whence voir).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.zj??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: visions

Noun

vision f (plural visions)

1. vision, sight

Synonyms

• (ability to see): vue

Derived terms

• champ de vision
• télévision
• visible
• vision centrale
• vision périphérique
• visionnaire
• visionner

Further reading

• “vision” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• voisin

Middle English

Noun

vision

1. Alternative form of visioun

Old French

Alternative forms

• visioun, visiun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?si?.

Noun

vision f (oblique plural visions, nominative singular vision, nominative plural visions)

1. vision (supernatural sensory experience)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (vision, supplement)
• visiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• visiun

Etymology

From Latin v?si?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?zju?/

Noun

vision f (plural vision)

1. vision

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v???u?n/

Noun

vision c

1. vision; something imaginary
2. vision; a (grand) goal or idea

Declension