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单词 vision
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visionnoun

uk/ˈvɪʒ.ən/us/ˈvɪʒ.ən/

vision noun (MENTAL IMAGE)

B2 [ C ] an idea or mental image of something:

We see in his novels his sinister, almost apocalyptic, vision of the future.
Johnny was late home and, as usual, I had visions of him lying dead in some alley.

[ C ] an experience in which you see things that do not exist physically, when your mind is affected powerfully by something such as deep religious thought or drugs or mental illness:

She had visions in which the angel Gabriel appeared to her.

More examples

  • His vision is of a world that coheres through human connection rather than rules.
  • Say the word 'Australia' and a vision of beaches and blue seas immediately springs to mind.
  • I had visions of her waiting for us at the station.
  • I had a vision of two old men in clown's outfits.
  • She had a vision of a garden full of trees.

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Imagining and conceiving

  • a reach of the imagination idiom
  • assume
  • blue-sky
  • conceivable
  • conceive
  • conceptualize
  • dream
  • feel
  • fertile
  • foundation
  • grant
  • look on/upon sb/sth as sth
  • mind
  • picture
  • presumption
  • put
  • put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
  • reckon
  • riot
  • suspicion

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The supernatural - general words

vision noun (VIEW OF THE FUTURE)

C1 [ U ] the ability to imagine how a country, society, industry, etc. could develop in the future and to plan for this:

He didn't have the mental agility or vision required for a senior politician.
a person of great artistic vision

More examples

  • Simon has a clear-sighted vision of the company's future.
  • The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.
  • The annual arts festival is a monument to her vision and hard work.
  • The people who planned Britain's new towns had a vision of clean modern housing for everyone.
  • The author has a vision of an emerging worldwide Christian communion.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Imagining and conceiving

  • a reach of the imagination idiom
  • assume
  • blue-sky
  • conceivable
  • conceive
  • conceptualize
  • dream
  • feel
  • fertile
  • foundation
  • grant
  • look on/upon sb/sth as sth
  • mind
  • picture
  • presumption
  • put
  • put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
  • reckon
  • riot
  • suspicion

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vision noun (ABILITY)

B2 [ U ] the ability to see:

She has very little vision in her left eye.

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Eyesight, glasses & lenses

  • (as) blind as a bat idiom
  • 20/20 vision
  • age-related macular degeneration
  • AMD
  • Balint's syndrome
  • blepharospasm
  • blind side
  • blindly
  • ciliary
  • cross-eyed
  • dispensing optician
  • horn-rimmed
  • lorgnette
  • nearsighted
  • ophthalmologist
  • optic
  • optometrist
  • sightless
  • spectacle
  • twenty-twenty vision

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The senses in general

vision noun (BEAUTIFUL SIGHT)

[ S ] literary or humorous (used when referring to a person) a beautiful and impressive sight:

And that vision of loveliness over there is my wife, Sandra.
She emerged from the bedroom, a vision in cream silk.

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Beauty and attractiveness

  • attractive
  • beauty
  • chic
  • crowning glory idiom
  • dainty
  • gorgeous
  • grace
  • graceful
  • grandeur
  • homely
  • magnificent
  • majesty
  • nobility
  • picturesque
  • poetry
  • shapely
  • splendour
  • stately
  • sublime
  • voluptuous

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