Panorama
[pænə'rɑːmə] or [,pænə'ræmə]
Definition
(noun.) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene.
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Definition
(n.) A complete view in every direction.
(n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.
(n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.
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Definition
n. a wide or complete view: a picture giving views of objects in all directions: a picture representing a number of scenes unrolled and made to pass before the spectator.—adj. Panora′mic.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a panorama, denotes that you will change your occupation or residence. You should curb your inclinations for change of scene and friends.
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Examples
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As the sun rose I saw a vast panorama of sea bottom and distant hills lying far below me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was before this supreme seer that the panorama of terrestrial creation was displayed during a five years' voyage. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fulton suggested that he add a panorama to the other buildings, and the idea was adopted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Fulton was given charge, and by 1800 he had built and opened the first panorama that Paris had ever seen. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I was already well acquainted with what I may term the panorama of nature, the change of seasons, and the various appearances of heaven and earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But may be you can not see the wild extravagance of my panorama. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was a brilliant scene painter, and especially successful in painting panoramas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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