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noun

plural of vision
1
as in dreams
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality a vision of the future that no other film director had ever created

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2
as in apparitions
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people believed he'd seen a vision of his mother

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visions

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verb

present tense third-person singular of vision
as in imagines
to form a mental picture of visioned her idea of the perfect meal

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Recent Examples of visions
Noun
The man cannot help himself, visions be damned. — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 29 June 2026 And for Rhaenyra, there are different visions of her premiership, one being something that looks a little like her father’s, that of the sort of moderate, kind of peaceful ruler. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 July 2026 The moon spends another day in Aquarius on July 3, bringing friends, community and your visions for the future into focus. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 In the dark underworld of New Orleans, the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new drug—crafted from the ashes of the dead—that grants users vivid, haunting visions of the past. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 June 2026 And visions of Turkey’s Arda Güler repeatedly slicing through the American defense in the final group-stage game suggest old vulnerabilities remain. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026 Ahead of Independence Day, the two figureheads of America’s political parties offered competing visions for the nation’s future, each before symbols of the country’s past. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026 Internal documents and conversations with five people working closely on the events reveal a strained relationship between two committees with dramatically different visions and a lack of willingness to coordinate with each other. — Philip Wang, Time, 29 June 2026 At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where values and visions of America as inclusive or exclusive are communicated to young people. — Derek H. Alderman, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visions
  1. dreams
  2. apparitions
  3. imagines
  4. fantasies
  5. spirits
  6. envisions
  7. illusions
  8. ghosts
Noun
  • Romelu Lukaku scored the fourth goal just at the end of stoppage time, and ending the USMNT’s dreams.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
Definition of dreams
Noun
  • Today, the massive complex attracts paranormal investigators who report apparitions, voices, and other unexplained phenomena.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
  • Why then, when discussing body image after weight changes, is our culture reaching for the language of vexing apparitions and death?
    — Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Definition of apparitions
Verb
  • No parent ever imagines spending a holiday within hospital walls, so these traditions aim to give them something to look forward to and enjoy in the midst of it all.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • Ward imagines a space inside a space, not unlike the custom tents and custom builds popular in luxury weddings right now (one tent took five days to assemble and recreate a Greek Orthodox church, Vogue reported).
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Definition of imagines
Noun
  • For this dourest of doubters, Musk’s claims for the feats ahead can only happen in the SpaceX founder’s head, or in the sci-fi fantasies Eisman grew up on.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Definition of fantasies
Noun
  • Koval Distillery, Chicago’s first legal post-Prohibition distillery, produces spirits as artful as its bottle designs and Vin312 Winery has grown from its owner’s garage into a full-fledged tasting room.
    — Midwest Living, Midwest Living, 1 July 2026
  • The release continues Tamworth’s tradition of creating spirits inspired by the natural world around its rural New Hampshire home.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of spirits
Verb
  • The company’s existing workhorse rocket, Electron, is simply too small to deliver most of the kinds of communications satellites that Rocket Lab envisions developing.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
  • Baldet envisions Elevate as a category-defining modern wellness brand, built on utility and trust.
    — Lela London, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of envisions
Noun
  • Presented Out of Competition at the 1967 edition of Venice, Deadly Sweet takes it cue from a brief encounter between a disenchanted man and a girl with no illusions in the wake of the murder of a nightclub owner in London.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 June 2026
  • Perhaps because of this aesthetic of illusions, the earnest state pride evident in some of the pavilions turns out to feel especially delightful.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
Definition of illusions
Noun
  • It could be argued baseball isn't America's pastime any longer, yet there's something poetic and haunting in this beautiful film that explores the sport as well as ghosts of our past.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • The savory along the river is teeming with bees, and small white moths light among the ghosts of withered bergamot.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
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