swevening

发音

/ˈswɛvə.nɪŋ/

词形变化

swevenings 复数 swevenings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A dreaming.

    废旧

    He saw distorted, dancing shapes in a nightmarish swevening.

词源

From Middle English swevenyng, from sweven (“dream”) and thus equivalent to sweven + -ing. Germanic cognates include Danish søvn (“sleep”), Icelandic svefn (“sleep”), Norwegian søvn (“sleep”), Swedish sömn (“sleep”).

来源：wiktionary