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vision
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)
- (uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
- (countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
- , [Act I, scene ii]:
- […] For to a Vi?ion ?o apparant, Rumor / Cannot be mute […]
- , [Act I, scene ii]:
- (countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
- (countable, by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
- (countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
- (countable) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
- (countable) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
- (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)
- (transitive) To imagine something as if it were to be true.
- (transitive) To present as in a vision.
- (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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- vision (supernatural sensory experience)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe 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)
- vision
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v???u?n/
Noun
vision c
- vision; something imaginary
- vision; a (grand) goal or idea
Declension
vision From the web:
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- what visions plague lady macbeth
- what vision do i have
- what vision do you need to be a pilot
- what vision do you need glasses
- what visions may bring
nightmare
English
Alternative forms
- night-mare (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English night-mare, from Old English *nihtmare, equivalent to night +? mare (“evil spirit believed to afflict a sleeping person”). Cognate with Scots nichtmare and nichtmeer, Dutch nachtmerrie, Middle Low German nachtm?r, German Nachtmahr.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?na?t.m??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /na?t.m???/, [n???.m???]
Noun
nightmare (plural nightmares)
- (now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep. [from 14th c.]
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- It haunted me, however, more than once, like the nightmare.
- 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Black Cat’:
- I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart!
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- (now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. [from 16th c.]
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:
- Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:
- A very bad or frightening dream. [from 19th c.]
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
- (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. [from 20th c.]
- Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
Synonyms
- (demon said to torment sleepers): incubus, succubus, night hag
Related terms
- nightmarish
- daymare
Translations
nightmare From the web:
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- what nightmares are made of
- what nightmares do dogs have
- what nightmares do babies have
- what nightmare on elm street is the best
- what nightmare is on the moon this week
- what nightmares disturb anakin
- what nightmares do cats have
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