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prevue

prevue is the alternative form of preview.

Meaning of preview

Verb

preview (third-person singular simple present previews, present participle previewing, simple past and past participle previewed)

  1. (transitive) To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
    • Vidal's talk was caled "The Screening Of History," and it was a free-ranging meditation on the United States, the movies, on Vidal's personal history and numerous interconnections. (It also previewed a forthcoming book by the same name.)1991 August 24, Lewis Gannett, “Gore Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 8
  2. (transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

See all 7 meanings of preview

Forms of prevue

Verb
third-person singular presentprevues
present participleprevuing
past participleprevued
pastprevued
Noun
pluralprevues

Origin of prevue

Borrowed from French prevue (literally “preview”).

Questions about prevue

What is prevue the alternative form of?
Prevue is the alternative form of preview.

Words near prevue in the dictionary

  1. Prevost's squirrel
  2. Prevost's squirrels
  3. Prevosts
  4. prevote
  5. prevoyant
  6. prevue
  7. prevued
  8. prevues
  9. prevuing
  10. Prew
  11. prewait

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prevue (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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