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apercu

apercu is the alternative spelling of aperçu.

Meaning of aperçu

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
  2. An outline or summary; also, words that summarize.

Forms of apercu

pluralapercus

Questions about apercu

What is apercu the alternative spelling of?
Apercu is the alternative spelling of aperçu.

Words near apercu in the dictionary

  1. apepsinia
  2. apepsy
  3. apeptic
  4. aper
  5. aperch
  6. apercu
  7. apercus
  8. aperea
  9. apereas
  10. aperest
  11. aperested

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apercu (page history and authors); aperçu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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