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noun

Panorama n.

A complete view in every direction.

Hence: A comprehensive survey of a particular topic; also, a broad view of the development of a series of events.

A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.

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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Etymology of 'Panorama'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Panorama" Quotes from Famous Books

... spite of the dissolving views of the novel panorama, when above the two voices that kept inviting him to "be seated," there arose, in muffled tones at first, and then with distressing distinctness, a sound of sobbing. It made the old man turn on his pillow even while he slept, for it was the voice of a woman, and he was tender ...

— Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches • Ruth McEnery Stuart

... one or ten bards, but the whole bardic and druidic organisation of the island, delighted to record, collate, and verify—those pedigrees are as reliable as that of any of the regal clans. They represent accurately the mythological panorama, as it unrolled itself slowly through the centuries before the imagination and spirit of our ancestors accurately that divine drama, millennium—lasting, with its exits and entrances of gods. Millennium-lasting, and more so, for it is plain that one divine ...

— Early Bardic Literature, Ireland • Standish O'Grady

... even in the winter, with its noble panorama of hills and woods, was now looking its loveliest in the leafy month of June. Ida had been living with Miss Wendover nearly eight months, and had become to her as a daughter, waiting upon her with faithful and loving service, always a bright and cheerful ...

— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon

... studied the panorama spread before him. "That blue gulch yonder is the Imnachuck." He pointed to a valley perhaps four ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... of a panorama than a play, is founded on the Homeric story. Its scenes are laid in Olympus, in Hades, on Calypso's isle, and finally in Ithaca. Calypso tries to retain ...

— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

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