visionnoun
uk/ˈvɪʒ.ən/us/ˈvɪʒ.ən/vision noun (MENTAL IMAGE)
B2 [ C ] an idea or mental image of something:
[ 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:
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- 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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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:
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- 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.
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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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vision noun (ABILITY)
B2 [ U ] the ability to see:
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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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vision noun (BEAUTIFUL SIGHT)
[ S ] literary or humorous (used when referring to a person) a beautiful and impressive sight:
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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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