visão

See also: vì sao

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vison, borrowed from Latin vīsiōnem. Compare the inherited doublet avejão.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈzɐ̃w̃/ [viˈzɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈzɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈzɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /biˈzɐ̃w̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: vi‧são

Noun

visão f (plural visões)

1. view (the act of seeing something)

   Synonym: observação

   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 656:

     Ele podia ouvi-la se deslocando para a direita, para obter uma visão desimpedida dele.

     He could hear her moving herself to the right, to obtain an unobstructed view of him.

2. sight; eyesight; vision (the ability to see; the condition of not being blind)

   Synonym: vista

3. vision; eye (the ability to notice things)
4. vision (an idea about how things should be in the future)
5. view; vision (mental image)

   Synonym: imagem

6. view (a person’s way of understanding something)
7. (databases) view (logical table in database formed from data from physical tables)

   Synonym: view

8. (paranormal, religion) vision (a mystical mental image of something that happened or will happen)

Derived terms

• visionação
• visionamento
• visionário

Related terms

• ver
• vidente
• vista
• visto

Further reading

• “visão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913