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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dream.

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  1. n. archaic A dream.
  2. n. archaic A vision.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A vision seen in sleep; a dream.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old English swefn ("sleep, dream, vision"), from Proto-Germanic *swifnan, *swifnaz (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *súpnos (“dream”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Dutch suf ("drowsy"), Middle High German swēb ("sleep"), Danish søvn ("sleep"), Latin somnus ("sleep, slumber, drowsiness"), Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna), Ancient Greek ὕπνος (hupnos). (Wiktionary)

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  1. dream

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  • chelster Sweven may mean sleep or a vision seen in sleep, a dream. — The Orthoepist Jun 8, 2010

  • bexx "I am so ful of joye and of solas,
    That I diffye bothe sweven and dreem."

    Geoffrey Chaucer,
    The Canterbury Tales: The Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 3170-3171 Mar 29, 2007

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