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overviews

overviews is the plural of overview.

Meaning of overview

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

  1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
    • With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56
  2. (rare) A view from above.
  3. (obsolete) An inspection.
    • Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about overviews

What is overviews the plural of?
Overviews is the plural of overview.

Words near overviews in the dictionary

  1. overview effect
  2. overview effects
  3. overviewable
  4. overviewed
  5. overviewing
  6. overviews
  7. overvigorous
  8. overvigorously
  9. overviolent
  10. overvisited
  11. overvivid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overviews (page history and authors); overview (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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