overview

English

Etymology

over- +‎ view

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
2. An inspection.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Translations

brief summary, as of a book or a presentation

• Chinese:

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

• Czech: přehled m
• 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)
• Latin: breviarium n
• Maori: kōrero whānui
• Pennsylvania German: Iwwerguck
• Persian: نمای کلی‎‎
• Portuguese: visão geral f, breve resumo m
• 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 [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.