vision

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

• enPR: vĭzh'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ˈvɪʒ.n̩]

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• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

vision (countable and uncountable, plural visions)

1. (uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
2. (countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] For to a Viſion ſo apparant, Rumor / Cannot be mute […]

   • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid:

     It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!

3. (countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

   He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.

   • 2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 107:

     Visitations are a commonly reported afterlife phenomenon. For example, a dying patient has a vision of her mother, who has been dead for twenty years.

4. (countable, by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
   • 1690, John Locke, “Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things”, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, volume II, London: A. Bettesworth et al., published 1735, book III, page 250:

     For having the Idea of any thing in our Mind, no more proves the Exiſtence of that Thing, than the Picture of a Man evidences his being in the World, or the Viſions of a Dream make thereby a true Hiſtory.

5. (countable, by extension) A perceived potential future event or occurrence.
   • 2020 April 3, Chappell Roan, Dan Nigro, “Pink Pony Club”‎^[1]performed by Chappell Roan:

     I know you wanted me to stay
     But I can't ignore the crazy visions of me in LA

6. (countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

   He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.

7. (uncountable) General aspiration; forward-thinkingness.
   • 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair‎^[2], performed by Tears for Fears:

     I can't stand this indecision
     Married with a lack of vision
     Everybody wants to rule the—

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

   He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.

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

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

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?)

• (imagine): envision

• envision
• prevision

• → Urdu: ویژن

• Voisin, inviso

vision

1. genitive singular of visio

• voisin

Inherited from Middle French vision, from Old French vision, a learned borrowing from Latin vīsiō, from vīsus + -tio.

• IPA^(key): /vi.zjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: visions

vision f (plural visions)

1. vision, sight

   Synonym: vue

• → Turkish: vizyon

• “vision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• voisin

vision

1. alternative form of visioun

Inherited from Old French vision, a learned borrowing from Latin vīsiō, from vīsus + -tio.

vision f (plural visions)

1. vision, sight

• French: vision

• vision on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

• visioun, visiun (Anglo-Norman)

Learned borrowing from Latin vīsiō.

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

1. vision (supernatural sensory experience)

• Middle French: vision
  • French: vision
• → Middle English: visioun, vision, viseoun, vysion, vysyon, vysion, visione, visiun, visiowne, wision
  • English: vision
  • Scots: veesion

• 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

• visiun

From Latin vīsiō.

• IPA^(key): /viˈzjuŋ/

vision f (plural vision)

1. vision

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈɧuːn/

vision c

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