See also: Vision, visión, and vîsion

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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.

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

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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) 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.

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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?)

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  • Urdu: ویژن

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vision

  1. genitive singular of visio

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

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vision f (plural visions)

  1. vision, sight

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  • (ability to see): vue

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vision

  1. Alternative form of visioun

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Borrowed from Latin vīsiō.

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

  1. vision (supernatural sensory experience)

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From Latin vīsiō.

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vision f (plural vision)

  1. vision

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vision c

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

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Declension of vision 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vision visionen visioner visionerna
Genitive visions visionens visioners visionernas