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  1. noun An examination or inspection: used binoculars to get a better view.
  2. noun A sight; a look.
  3. noun A systematic survey; coverage: a view of Romantic poetry.

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  • This view is a poor copy of Merian's splendid view, 1638. —  Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
  • Hey! thou art soaking all over Come here; I'll show you a fellow who will tell you all about it In great excitement the boy seized his brother's hand and dragged rather than led him round the end of the house, where the first object that met his view was a man whose face was covered with blood, which oozed from a wound in his forehead, while the heaving of his chest, and an occasional gasp, seemed to indicate that he had run far and swiftly CHAPTER FIVE THE VIKING RAID--ALRIC'S ADVENTURE WITH THE DANE--ERLING'S CUTTER, AND THE BATTLE IN THE PASS Whom have we here?" —  Erling the Bold
  • The argument which Milton himself sets forth for the support of this view was accepted as conclusive in his own age. —  Milton
  • It must be granted he reasons well, according to the view he has taken of things; but he has given no proof whatever that his view is a correct one. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • This view was accepted by the Regents; changes were made in the organization of the Board in Control of Athletics which limited the authority of the Faculty, and Michigan, by simply refusing to abide by certain of the rules of the Conference, automatically ceased to be a member in 1908. —  The University of Michigan
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman, from feminine past participle of veoir, to see, from Latin vidēre; see weid- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also vewe; from Old French veue, French vue, a view, sight, from veu, French vu (= Italian veduta, from Middle Latin as if *vidutus), past participle of voir, from Latin videre, see: seevision.
  2. Early modern English also vewe; from view, n.
 

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