1 [U] the ability to see; the area that you can see from a particular position:
to have good / perfect / poor / blurred / normal vision * 2020 vision (= the ability to see perfectly) * Cats have good night vision. * The couple moved outside her field of vision. * He glimpsed something on the edge of his vision.
seealsoTUNNELVISION
2 [C] an idea or a picture in your imagination:
He had a vision of a world in which there would be no wars. * I had visions of us getting hopelessly lost. * The word conjures up visions of home and family.
3 [C] a dream or similar experience, especially of a religious kind:
The idea came to her in a vision.
4 [U] the ability to think about or plan the future with great imagination and intelligence:
a leader of vision * He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
5 [C] a ~ (of sth) (literary) a person of great beauty or who shows the quality mentioned:
She was a vision in white lace. * a vision of loveliness / beauty / health
6 [U] the picture on a television or cinema/movie theater screen:
We apologize for the temporary loss of vision.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for vision is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is vision a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, vision is tagged as noun.
Does vision appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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