English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
over- + view
Pronunciation [ edit ]
overview (plural overviews )
A brief summary , as of a book or a presentation.
2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail , page 56 :With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.
( obsolete ) An inspection .
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare , “Loues Labour’s Lost ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act IV, scene iii] :Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view ?
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Translations [ edit ]
brief summary, as of a book or a presentation
Bulgarian: резюме (bg) n ( rezjume )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 概觀 / 概观 (zh) ( gàiguān )
Czech: přehled (cs) 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) , survol (fr) m , aperçu (fr) m
Georgian: მიმოხილვა ( mimoxilva )
German: Übersicht (de) f , Überblick (de) m
Greek: επισκόπηση (el) f ( episkópisi )
Hebrew: סקירה f ( skirá )
Hungarian: áttekintés (hu)
Irish: forbhreathnú m , léargas ginearálta m , foramharc m , osamharc m
Italian: visione d'insieme m , resoconto (it) , panoramica (it) f
Japanese: 概要 (ja) ( がいよう, gaiyō )
Korean: 개요 ( gaeyo )
Latin: breviārium n
Latvian: pārskats m
Maori: kōrero whānui , tirowhānui , tirohanga whānui
Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
Pennsylvania German: Iwwerguck
Persian: نمای کلی
Polish: przegląd (pl) m
Portuguese: visão geral f , breve resumo m , apanhado (pt) m
Romanian: vedere de ansamblu f , rezumat (ro) n
Russian: обозре́ние (ru) n ( obozrénije )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: pregled (sh) m , prikaz (sh) m ( literary )
Spanish: resumen (es) m , visión de conjunto f
Swedish: översikt (sv) c , överblick (sv) c , resumé (sv) c
Turkish: genel bakış , kısaca gözden geçirme
Ukrainian: огляд (uk) m ( ohljad )
overview (third-person singular simple present overviews , present participle overviewing , simple past and past participle overviewed )
( transitive ) To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary .
1976 , Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [1] , →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.