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- [vizh-uh n]
- /ˈvɪʒ ən/
- /ˈvɪʒn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [vizh-uh n]
- /ˈvɪʒ ən/
Definitions of vision word
- noun vision the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight. 1
- noun vision the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur. 1
- noun vision an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision. Compare hallucination (def 1). 1
- noun vision something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message. 1
- noun vision a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory. 1
- noun vision something seen; an object of sight. 1
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Origin of vision
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English < Latin vīsiōn- (stem of vīsiō) a seeing, view, equivalent to vīs(us), past participle of vidēre to see + -iōn- -ion
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Parts of speech for Vision
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
vision popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
vision usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for vision
noun vision
- acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
- acuity — Acuity is sharpness of vision or hearing, or quickness of thought.
- acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
- adonis — a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
- adonises — Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
verb vision
- be-held — simple past tense and past participle of behold.
- blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
- bring to mind — recall
- call up — If you call someone up, you telephone them.
- catch on — If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.
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