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English
Etymology
From pre- + view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).
Pronunciation
Noun
preview (plural previews)
- An experience of something in advance.
- Synonym: foretaste
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36: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; […].
- (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
- Something seen in advance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (computing) a facility for seeing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.
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Translations
advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
- Bulgarian: предвари́телен пре́глед m (predvarítelen prégled)
- Dutch: voorproefje (nl) n, avant-première (nl) f, voorvertoning (nl) f
- German: Vorschau (de) f, Voraufführung (de) f, Preview (de) f or m or n
- Greek: πρώτη προβολή f (próti provolí)
- Hindi: झलक (hi) f (jhalak), प्रस्तुतीकरण (hi) m (prastutīkraṇ)
- Hungarian: előzetes (hu), előbemutató
- Icelandic: stikla f
- Italian: anteprima (it) f, visione in anteprima f
- Japanese: 試写会 (ししゃかい, shishakai)
- Kannada: ಮುನ್ನೋಟ (kn) (munnōṭa)
- Korean: 미리 보기 (miri bogi)
- Malay: pratonton, previu, treler
- Polish: prapremiera (pl) f
- Portuguese: antestreia (pt) f
- Russian: предвари́тельный просмо́тр m (predvarítelʹnyj prosmótr), предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
- Spanish: preestreno m
- Swedish: förhandsvisning (sv) c
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something seen in advance
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Verb
preview (third-person singular simple present previews, present participle previewing, simple past and past participle previewed)
- To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
1991 August 24, Lewis Gannett, “Gore Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 8: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.)
- (computing) To show something in advance, a facility for seeing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.
Translations
to show something in advance
computing: to see something in advance