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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.

view (plural views)

view of a city

view from a room

  1. (physical) Visual perception.
    1. The act of seeing or looking at something.
      He changed seats to get a complete view of the stage.
      • , Book II, Chapter XXI
        Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
      • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
        But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
    2. The range of vision.
      Synonyms: sight, eyeshot
      If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our 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:
        The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.
    3. Something to look at, such as scenery.
      Synonym: vista
      My flat has a view of a junkyard.
      the view from a window
      • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 20:
        "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."
      • 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:
        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.
    4. (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.
      That video got a million views.
      Synonyms: (of a webpage) pageview, (of a video) play
      • 2026 March 11, Chad de Guzman, “Who Is Balendra Shah, the Rapper On Track to Become Nepal’s Next Prime Minister”, in TIME‎[1], archived from the original on 11 March 2026:
        His other song, “Nepal Haseko,” became an anthem during last year's protests, and already has more than 10 million views on YouTube.
    5. (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
      • c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece:
        [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
  2. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
    a fine view of Lake George
  3. An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
    1. A mental image.
      I need more information to get a better view of the situation.
    2. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
      Synonyms: conclusion, mind, take; see also Thesaurus:judgement
      Your view on evolution is based on religious doctrines, not on scientific findings.
      • 2019 May 30, Karen Weintraub, “Crispr gene-editing will change the way Americans eat – here's what's coming”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
        There hasn’t been much polling data on consumer views of gene-edited foods, because they are still so new.
    3. A point of view.
      From my view that is a stupid proposition.
      • 2025 October 14, Catherine Thorbecke, “China’s AI Dragons Must Survive ‘Involution’ to Conquer the World”, in Bloomberg‎[3], Bloomberg L.P.:
        “I believe deep inside everyone's heart is an underlying loneliness,” he says. Humanity longs for another species with comparable intelligence. AGI, in his view, isn’t just a profit engine but a companion on our civilizational journey.
    5. An intention or prospect.
      He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.
      • 1903, Henry Kelsall Aspinall, Birkenhead and Its Surroundings, page 116:
        With this view, they made a Guy Faux, or dummy figure of a boy, dressed in coat and cap; such as might in a poor light be mistaken for a living figure.
  4. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
  5. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
  6. A wake. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

seeing

range of vision

internet: individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user — see also visit

picture

mental image

intention

view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)

  1. (transitive) To look at.
    The video was viewed by millions of people.
    • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
      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 viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
  2. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.
    I view it as a serious breach of trust.

to look at

view

  1. alternative form of vewe

Unadapted borrowing from English view.

view f (plural views)

  1. (databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)
    Synonym: visão
  2. (Internet) view (individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user)
    Synonym: visualização

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