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previews

previews is the plural of preview.

previews is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preview.

Meaning of preview

Noun

preview (plural previews)

  1. An experience of something in advance.
    • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
    Synonyms:
    foretaste
  2. (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
  3. A short collection of clips edited together to advertise a film, television show, etc.; a trailer.
  4. The act of seeing something in advance.
  5. A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

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Phrases with previews

Questions about previews

What is previews the plural of?
Previews is the plural of preview.

Words near previews in the dictionary

  1. previewable
  2. previewed
  3. previewer
  4. previewers
  5. previewing
  6. previews
  7. preving
  8. prevint
  9. previnted
  10. previntin'
  11. prevints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: previews (page history and authors); preview (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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