view
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
How often you will meet it
Rank 649 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 29,524 times across 175,173 chapters — 0.014% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc. also: position, perspective consider what follows from the positivist view
- the visual percept of a region also: aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views
- the act of looking or seeing or observing also: survey, sight he tried to get a better view of ithis survey of the battlefield was limited
- the range of the eye also: eyeshot they were soon out of view
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty also: opinion, sentiment, persuasion, thought my opinion differs from yoursI am not of your persuasion
- a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof also: opinion his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page
view in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Instead with a dawning amazement he watched Carlos Paredes stroll into view.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Tendency to reach for his boot-straps, as if with the view of lifting himself by the same.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Here Smith was placed upon a scaffold, six feet square and ten feet high, securely bound, within the view of all beholders.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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They went down the broad flight of ancient stone steps which led to the tennis-court, lying in full view below the lawn.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1