review
/ɹɪˈvjuː/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it."
- "The newspaper review was full of praise for the play."
- "The more strongly people felt about their ideas, the more potent the demons seemed to them: Christians believed that traditional paganism, far from being the work of men, was an 'opium of the masses', pumped into the human race by the non-human demons; and one scholar even ascribed bad reviews of his book to demonic inspiration!"
- "The victims demanded a full judicial review of the case."
- "The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces."
- "The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants."
Etymology
From Middle English revewe, reveue, from Old French reveüe, revue (Modern French: revue), feminine form of reveü, past participle of reveoir (French: revoir), from Latin revideō, from re- +videō (“see, observe”) (English: video). Equivalent to re- + view. Compare retrospect. Doublet of revue.