Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dream.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
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- noun archaic A
dream . - noun archaic A
vision .
Etymologies
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Examples
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All that heard of the sweven said it was a token of great battle.
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All that heard of the sweven said it was a token of great battle.
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And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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But to meet God! And 'tis no sweven, [dream] ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness [immortality] -- it is real.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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So she started like one frightened and a moment after she threw herself upon her husband and cried, "Say me, do I view thee in vision or really in the flesh?" whereto he replied, "In the world of sense and no sweven is this."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
bexx commented on the word sweven
"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
March 30, 2007
chelster commented on the word sweven
Sweven may mean sleep or a vision seen in sleep, a dream. — The Orthoepist
June 9, 2010