| \SWEV-uhn\ | noun
1. Archaic. a vision; dream. | | Quotes | Thought I, "This is so queint a sweven/ That I wol, by process of time,/ Fonde to put this sweven in ryme…
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400), "The Book of the Duchess" | | Origin | | Sweven entered English around 900. The term picked up a verbal sense a century later, "to dream," but both terms have since fallen out of use. | |
