Definition of "vision"

vision

/ˈvɪʒ.ən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural visions
1. (uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
2. (countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
  Quotations
  […] For to a Viſion ſo apparant, Rumor / Cannot be mute […]
  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, [Act I, scene ii]
  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!
  1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid
3. (countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
  Quotations
  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.
  2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, page 107
4. (countable, by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  Quotations
  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.
  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
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.
verb
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.

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