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sweven

[ swev-uhn ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. a vision; dream.


sweven

/ ˈɛə /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a vision or dream
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sweven1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English swefn; akin to Old Norse sofa “to sleep,” Latin somnus, Greek ýԴDz “s”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sweven1

Old English swefn; related to Old Norse svefn dream, sleep, Lithuanian Բ, Old Slavonic sunu, Latin somnus
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The coffee is now creeping onto menus at places like Luminous in Brooklyn; in Bristol, UK, Sweven occasionally stocks the beans.

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I sure hope this isn’t a sweven.

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Her latest album, “Sweven,” blends these disparate elements into a cohesive sound that enchants as it beguiles.

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And ne'er was seen by poet, in a sweven, An eye like thine, a face so fair to see As that which makes the sunlight sweet to me.

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In his anxiety to make his rendering close, and mindful, perhaps, of the warning in the Apocalypse, "If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life," Wiclif followed the Latin order of construction so literally as to make rather awkward English, translating, for example, Quid sibi vult hoc somnium? by What to itself wole this sweven?

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