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Definition of Sweven
1. n. A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
Definition of Sweven
1. Noun. (archaic) A dream. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) A vision. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sweven
1. a dream or vision [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweven
Literary usage of Sweven
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Riches of Chaucer: In which His Impurities Have Been Expunged, His by Geoffrey Chaucer (1835)
"... this is so quaint a sweven' That I would by process of time Fond 3 to put this
sweven in rhyme As I can best, and that anon: This was my sweven, ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... a sweven, So wonderful), that never yet I trowe no man had the wit To conne
well my sweven rede. No, not Joseph without drede, Of Egypt, he that rad so, ..."
3. The Riches of Chaucer: In which His Impurities Have Been Expunged, His by Geoffrey Chaucer (1835)
"... this is so quaint a sweven' That I would by process of time Fond 3 to put this
sweven in rhyme As I can best, and that anon: This was my sweven, ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... a sweven, So wonderful), that never yet I trowe no man had the wit To conne
well my sweven rede. No, not Joseph without drede, Of Egypt, he that rad so, ..."
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