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point of view
[ point uhv vyoo ]
noun
- a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint: : POV
from the point of view of a doctor.
- an opinion, attitude, or judgment: : POV
He refuses to change his point of view in the matter.
- the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters. : POV
- Movies. a method of shooting a scene or film that expresses the attitude of the director or writer toward the material or of a character in a scene. : POV
point of view
noun
- a position from which someone or something is observed
- a mental viewpoint or attitude
- the mental position from which a story is observed or narrated
the omniscient point of view
Word History and Origins
Origin of point of view1
Idioms and Phrases
An attitude or standpoint, how one sees or thinks of something. For example, From the manufacturer's point of view, the critical issue is cost . This expression, originally alluding to one's vantage point in seeing a building or painting or other object, dates from the early 1700s.Example Sentences
From a financial point of view, however, it is small change compared to the riches of the Champions League.
From Newcastle's point of view, after a defeat like the one they suffered against Villa on Saturday, they have the right game coming up next - against one of the bottom three, Ipswich, at home.
This is pretty much it, I would say: This is the moment we have long feared — or, from another point of view, the moment we’ve all been waiting for.
And as it does, he says it'll have to embrace the different points of view feeding into it.
But from a sheer artistic point of view, was Kinkade’s work any good?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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