view
/vjuː/
view noun: the act of seeing or looking at something.
Noun
view (plural views)
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- He changed seats to get a complete view of the stage.
- Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view.1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC
- The range of vision.
- If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view.
- The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- Something to look at, such as scenery.
- My flat has a view of a junkyard.
- the view from a window
- Synonyms:
- vista
- An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.
- That video got a million views.
- His other song, “Nepal Haseko,” became an anthem during last year's protests, and already has more than 10 million views on YouTube.2026 March 11, Chad de Guzman, “Who Is Balendra Shah, the Rapper On Track to Become Nepal’s Next Prime Minister”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2026
- Appearance; show; aspect.
- [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
- A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
- a fine view of Lake George
- A mental image.
- I need more information to get a better view of the situation.
- I have with exact view perused thee, Hector.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
- Your view on evolution is based on religious doctrines, not on scientific findings.
- to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 21
- Synonyms:
- conclusion, mind, take, award, censure, choice, opinion, decision, deduction, determination
- A point of view.
- From my view that is a stupid proposition.
- I think I have fairly broad views on the whole.
- An intention or prospect.
- He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.
- No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he doesa. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC
- A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
- The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with.
- A wake.
Verb
view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)
- To look at.
- The video was viewed by millions of people.
- Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be...2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
- To regard in a stated way.
- I view it as a serious breach of trust.
view meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
view in Hindi
- seeing
- प्रेक्षा prekṣā, नज़र nazar
- range of vision
- दर्शन darśan
- something to look at
- दृश्य dŕśya
- internet: individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user
- व्यू vyū
view in Tamil
- பார்வை, நோக்கு, கருத்து, பார்
view in Marathi
- दृश्य
view in Urdu
- something to look at
- مَنْظَرَہ manzara, مَنْظَر manzar
More languagesFewer languages
- view in Bengali
- দৃশ্য, দর্শন, চাক্ষুষ উপলব্ধি, চিত্র
- view in Telugu
- దృశ్యం dr̥śyaṁ, చూచు cūcu
- view in Malayalam
- കാഴ്ച kāḻca
- view in Kannada
- ದರ್ಶನ darśana
- view in Punjabi
- ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼, ਨਜ਼ਾਰਾ
- view in Gujarati
- દૃશ્ય
- view in Odia
- ଦୃଶ୍ଯ଼, ଦୃଶ୍ଯ଼ମାନ କରନ୍ତୁ
- view in Sanskrit
- दृष्टि dṛṣṭi
- view in Nepali
- दृश्य
- view in Pashto
- منظره manzará
- view in Arabic
- مَنْظَر manẓar, مَشْهَد mašhad, مَنْظَرَة manẓara
- view in Indonesian
- pandangan, penglihatan, pemandangan
- view in Persian
- ویو viyu, دیدن didan
- view in Thai
- วิว wiu, ทิวทัศน์ tiu-tát, มุมมอง mum-mɔɔng, ดู duu
- view in Vietnamese
- cảnh vật, lượt xem, quan điểm, khung nhìn
Examples of view in a sentence
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope:
- "Well, there don't seem to be any what you might call views about here," he agreed. […] "I've been through the Willawee Ranges forty miles west of here, and I can guarantee the views there."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 20:
- At Bleiken (50 miles), for the first time the Randsfjord comes into view, and a very lovely view it is, of the long winding island-studded lake with wooded shores and small sandy bays.1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:
- There hasn’t been much polling data on consumer views of gene-edited foods, because they are still so new.2019 May 30, Karen Weintraub, “Crispr gene-editing will change the way Americans eat – here's what's coming”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of view
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Antonyms
Forms of view
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | views |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | views |
| present participle | viewing |
| past participle | viewed |
| past | viewed |
Origin of view
From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta and vista.
Words formed from view
- 30,000-foot view
- afterview
- airview
- angle of view
- by-view
- clear view screen
- counterview
- dissolving view
- exploded view
- field of view
- foreview
- frog's-eye view
- frog's view
- frog view
- Grandview
- heave into view
- heave in view
- in full view
- in my view
- Innes View
- in plain view
- in someone's view
- interview
- in view
- in view of
- lakeview
- listview
- Longview
- long view
- misview
- model-view-controller
- model-view-presenter
- Mountain View
- Mountain View County
- Mount View
- multiview
- oceanview
- on any view
- on view
- out of view
- overview
- pay-per-view
- Peak View
- point of view
- preview
- rear-view mirror
- rear view
- rear-view
- rearview
- review
- re-view
- Rocky View County
- sea-view
- Seaview
- self-view
- Shoreview
- short view
- sideview
- side-view mirror
- Springview
Phrases with view
- Oak View
- view bar
- page view
- Pine View
- Swan View
- view bars
- Basin View
- Creek View
- Mines View
- view model
- view plane
- view point
58 more phrasesFewer phrases
- view shaft
- world view
- Kelvin View
- Market View
- take a view
- took a view
- Valley View
- view camera
- view halloo
- view models
- view planes
- view points
- view shafts
- Eastern View
- hove in view
- taken a view
- takes a view
- view cameras
- view halloos
- hoven in view
- taking a view
- view hallooed
- angles of view
- fields of view
- heaves in view
- hove into view
- points of view
- view hallooing
- with a view to
- bird's-eye view
- heaving in view
- hoven into view
- Mines View Park
- worm's eye view
- worm's-eye view
- heaves into view
- heaving into view
- Lake View Terrace
- view from nowhere
- view from the top
- clear view screens
- take a dim view of
- take the long view
- took a dim view of
- took the long view
- Mountain View Acres
- plain view doctrine
- taken a dim view of
- taken the long view
- takes a dim view of
- takes the long view
- view of frankpledge
- taking a dim view of
- taking the long view
- Desert View Highlands
- View Park-Windsor Hills
- view someone's etchings
- thirty-thousand-foot view
Words that rhyme with view
Questions about view
- What does view mean?
- View means the act of seeing or looking at something.
- What is view in Hindi?
- View in Hindi is प्रेक्षा (prekṣā), नज़र (nazar), दर्शन (darśan). See View meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use view in a sentence?
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
- What part of speech is view?
- View can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce view?
- View is pronounced /vjuː/.
- What is the plural of view?
- The plural of view is views.
Words near view in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: view (page history and authors); view (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); view (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); view (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ದರ್ಶನ (Kannada) (page history and authors); view (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); view (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); view (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); view (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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