Definitions for view

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view view

Spelling: [vyoo]

IPA: /vyu/

View is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in view (eivw).

Definitions for view

noun

1. an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
2. sight; vision.
3. range of sight or vision:
4. a sight or prospect of a landscape, the sea, etc.:
5. a picture or photograph of something:
6. a particular manner of looking at something:
7. contemplation or consideration of a matter with reference to action:
8. aim, intention, or purpose.
9. prospect; expectation:
10. a sight afforded of something from a position stated or qualified:
11. a general account or description of a subject.
12. a conception of a thing; opinion; theory:
13. a survey; inspection:

Idioms

1. in view, within range of vision. under consideration. as an end sought:
2. in view of, in consideration of; on account of:
3. on view, in a place for public inspection; on exhibition:
4. with a view to, with the aim or intention of. with the expectation or hope of:

verb (used with object)

1. to see; watch:
2. to look at; survey; inspect:
3. to contemplate mentally; consider:
4. to regard in a particular light or as specified:
5. Fox Hunting. to sight (a fox).

Origin of view

1375-1425; late Middle English v(i)ewe (noun) Anglo-French; Middle French veue sight Vulgar Latin *vidūta, noun use of feminine of *vidūtus, for Latin vīsus, past participle of vidēre to see

Examples for view

And the more she is forced to recount, the more her grasp of reality slips, or heightens, depending on your point of view.

He has not changed his view in prison despite the enormous pressure exerted on him by the regime.

In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

This view is known as “theistic evolution” and is widely embraced by educated evangelicals.

From the summit of Mount Margaret the view was very extensive.

Ascended a red-topped peak close to our bivouac and got a view ahead.

Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president, pushed back against that view.

And, in the first place, let us have a clear conception of the end in view.

The view was very extensive but not promising--spinifex being in every direction.

There was no thought that ye should part till you had some purpose in view.