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aperçu

/ˌa.pɛːˈsjuː/US/ˌæ.pɚˈsuː/

aperçu noun: a clever or insightful distillation; an aphorism.

Noun

aperçu (plural aperçus)

  1. A clever or insightful distillation; an aphorism.
    • I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into aperçus he was far from entertaining himself.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 143
    • In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose.2001 December, David Brooks, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
  2. An outline or summary; also, words that summarize.

aperçu meaning in Hindi

aperçu in Hindi

summary
सिंहावलोकन sĩhāvlokan

Examples of aperçu in a sentence

  • President [Barack] Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton's talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus.2009 February 22, Maureen Dowd, “Dark dark dark”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
  • While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.2014 October 31, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...

Forms of aperçu

pluralaperçus

Origin of aperçu

Borrowed from French aperçu. Compare with English apperception.

Questions about aperçu

What does aperçu mean?
Aperçu means a clever or insightful distillation; an aphorism.
What is aperçu in Hindi?
Aperçu in Hindi is सिंहावलोकन (sĩhāvlokan). See Aperçu meaning in Hindi.
How do you use aperçu in a sentence?
President [Barack] Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton's talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus.
What part of speech is aperçu?
Aperçu is a noun.
How do you pronounce aperçu?
Aperçu is pronounced /ˌa.pɛːˈsjuː/ (UK).
What is the plural of aperçu?
The plural of aperçu is aperçus.

Words near aperçu in the dictionary

  1. aperture-priority
  2. apertured
  3. apertureless
  4. apertures
  5. apery
  6. aperçu
  7. aperçus
  8. apes
  9. apesault
  10. apesaults
  11. Apesh

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