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): /ˈvɪ.ʒ(ə)n/

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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, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     , [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.

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) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

   He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.

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

   He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.

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

• (ability): sight, eyesight, view, perception
• (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

• Voisin, inviso

vision

1. Genitive singular form of visio.

• voisin

Borrowed from Latin vīsiō, from videō (whence voir).

• IPA^(key): /vi.zjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: visions

vision f (plural visions)

1. vision, sight

• (ability to see): vue

• télévision
• visible
• visionnaire
• visionner

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

• voisin

vision

1. Alternative form of visioun

• visioun, visiun (Anglo-Norman)

Borrowed from Latin vīsiō.

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

1. vision (supernatural sensory experience)

• 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

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈɧuːn/

vision c

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