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sweven

/ˈswɛvən/

sweven noun: a dream.

Noun

sweven (plural swevens)

  1. (archaic) A dream.
    • The kynge with the honderd knyghtes mette a wonder dreme two nyghtes a fore the bataille / that ther blewe a grete wynde & blewe doun her castels and her townes / and after that cam a water and bare hit all awey / Alle that herd of the sweuen said / it was a token of grete batayll1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I
    • [The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.1885, Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night
  2. (archaic) A vision.
    • The Golden Legend
      And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?

sweven meaning in Tamil

sweven in Tamil

கனவு, கனா பார்வை

Forms of sweven

pluralswevens

Origin of sweven

From Middle English sweven, from Old English swefn (“sleep, dream, vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *swefn, from Proto-Germanic *swefną, *swefnaz (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *supnós (“dream”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Dutch suf (“drowsy”), Middle High German swēb (“sleep”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål søvn (“sleep”), Faroese svøvnur (“sleep”), Icelandic svefn, svöfn (“sleep; dream”), Norwegian Nynorsk svebn, svemn, svevn, svøbn, svømn, sømn, søvn (“sleep”), Swedish sömn (“sleep”), Latin somnus (“sleep, slumber, drowsiness”), Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna, “sleep; dream”), Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).

Words formed from sweven

Words that rhyme with sweven

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Questions about sweven

What does sweven mean?
Sweven means a dream.
What is sweven in Tamil?
Sweven in Tamil is கனவு, கனா பார்வை. See Sweven meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sweven?
Sweven is a noun.
How do you pronounce sweven?
Sweven is pronounced /ˈswɛvən/.
What is the plural of sweven?
The plural of sweven is swevens.

Words near sweven in the dictionary

  1. Swetnams
  2. Swett
  3. Swettenham
  4. Swettenhams
  5. Swetts
  6. sweven
  7. swevening
  8. swevenings
  9. swevens
  10. Swexit
  11. Sweyn

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