overview

English

Etymology

over- +‎ view

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌvjuː/

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
2. An inspection.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?

Translations

brief summary, as of a book or a presentation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 概觀 (zh), 概观 (zh) (gàiguān)

• Czech: přehled m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: overzicht (nl)
• Esperanto: superrigardo (eo)
• Finnish: yleiskatsaus, yleiskuva
• French: vue d'ensemble, résumé (fr), synthèse (fr)
• Georgian: მიმოხილვა (mimoxilva)
• German: Übersicht (de) f, Überblick (de) m
• Greek: επισκόπηση (el) f (episkópisi)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: áttekintés (hu)
• Irish: forbhreathnú m, léargas ginearálta m, foramharc m, osamharc m

• Italian: visione d'insieme m, resoconto (it)
• Japanese: 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: breviarium n
• Maori: kōrero whānui, tirowhānui, tirohanga whānui
• Pennsylvania German: Iwwerguck
• Persian: نمای کلی‎
• Polish: przegląd (pl) m
• Portuguese: visão geral f, breve resumo m, apanhado (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: обозре́ние (ru) n (obozrénije)
• Spanish: resumen (es) m
• Swedish: översikt (sv) c, överblick (sv) c, resumé (sv) c
• Turkish: genel bakış, kısaca gözden geçirme

Verb

overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)

1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
   • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [2], →ISBN, page 313:

     Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.