vision

English Online Dictionary. What means vision‎? What does vision mean?

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vision (countable and uncountable, plural visions)

1. (uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
2. (countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
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

Descendants

• → Urdu: ویژن

Anagrams

• Voisin, inviso

Finnish

Noun

vision

1. genitive singular of visio

Anagrams

• voisin

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French vision, from Old French vision, borrowed from Latin vīsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.zjɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: visions

Noun

vision f (plural visions)

1. vision, sight

   Synonym: vue

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Turkish: vizyon

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• voisin

Middle English

Noun

vision

1. Alternative form of visioun

Middle French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vision, borrowed from Latin vīsiō.

Noun

vision f (plural visions)

1. vision, sight

Descendants

• French: vision

References

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• visioun, visiun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vīsiō.

Noun

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

1. vision (supernatural sensory experience)

Descendants

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

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 vīsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈzjuŋ/

Noun

vision f (plural vision)

1. vision

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈɧuːn/

Noun

vision c

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

Declension