Entry Word: vision

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 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> — see fantasy 1
2 a series of often striking pictures created by the imagination during sleep <haunted by visions of natural catastrophes> — see dream 1
3 the ability to see <the bright light temporarily robbed me of vision> — see eyesight
4 the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people <believed he'd seen a vision of his mother> — see ghost