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单词 dream vision
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dream visionn.

Brit. /ˈdriːm ˌvɪʒn/, U.S. /ˈdrim ˌvɪʒ(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dream n.2, vision n.
Etymology: < dream n.2 + vision n. Compare earlier night vision n.
1. The action or fact of seeing someone or something in a dream, esp. as a form of prophesy. Also (now chiefly): an instance of this; a vision experienced in a dream.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > image which appears in
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phantasma1598
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dream figurec1819
dream imagec1819
dream-picture1840
dream landscape1865
dreamscape1876
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > action or state of dreaming > specific aspect of
figuration1652
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1702 Hist. Wks. Learned Aug. 511/1 Observations through Seven years Experience and Study; shewing, Dream Vision to be the Great and Holy Fountain of Spiritual Emanations.
1847 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 543/2 I was not less astonished to find that my dream-vision agreed with reality.
1887 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 183 Visual hallucinations, dream-visions and subjective light sensations are possible, and the memory of the world of sight remains.
1948 Amer. Anthropologist 50 499 Such features as..dream-vision and divination of game..characterize the simplicity of the hunting culture.
1994 J. Godwin Theosophical Enlightenment ix. 169 The tenant had a dream vision of his predecessor and felt a dreadful shaking of the room.
2. A narrative mode, chiefly associated with medieval poetry, in which the author recounts an alleged dream, the subject of which is typically open to allegorical interpretation. Also: a narrative using this mode.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > other types of narrative poem
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tragica1679
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dream poem1850
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dream vision1906
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toast1962
1906 R. K. Root Poetry of Chaucer iv. 65 Its general form as a poem of the dream-vision type associates the Parliament of Fowls with the essentially mediæval, French models of Chaucer's earlier period.
1947 H. S. Bennett Chaucer & 15th Cent. iii. 34 While he retains the dream-vision, he uses it in a new (if not novel) way to bring out the pathos of his story.
1965 Eng. Stud. 46 15 Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and his other dream-visions.
1997 M. Mori Epic Grandeur 178 From..Piers Plowman..through Alice in Wonderland.., the dream vision has often been employed as a meaningful device to give credibility to a story which otherwise would sound unbelievable.
2010 J. M. Houston Building Monument to Dante iii. 102 The narrative device that characterizes the text is a framed dream vision.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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