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Etymology
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Calque of French point de vue.[1]
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point of view (plural points of view)
- A position from which something is seen; outlook; standpoint.
From an economist's point of view, business is all about money.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Cipher Codex entry:It has been suggested that Prothean data recording is highly dependent on a certain point of view, what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. The 'cipher' needed to comprehend the images implanted in Shepard's mind is the cultural knowledge of a Prothean: the archetypes, biological instincts, and common experiences universal to the race.
- An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs.
His point of view is that there is only one true religion.
- (literary theory) The perspective from which a narrative is related.
The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator.
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position from which something is seen; outlook; standpoint
- Arabic: وِجْهَة نَظَر f (wijhat naẓar)
- Armenian: տեսակետ (hy) (tesaket)
- Belarusian: пункт по́гляду m (punkt póhljadu), пункт гле́джання m (punkt hljédžannja)
- Bulgarian: гледна точка f (gledna točka)
- Catalan: punt de vista (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 觀點/观点 (zh) (guāndiǎn), 角度 (zh) (jiǎodù)
- Czech: hledisko (cs) n, úhel pohledu m
- Dutch: gezichtspunt (nl) n, oogpunt (nl) n
- Esperanto: vidpunkto (eo)
- Estonian: vaatenurk, perspektiiv, vaatevinkel
- Finnish: näkökulma (fi), näkökanta (fi)
- French: point de vue (fr) m
- Galician: punto de vista (gl) m
- Georgian: თვალსაზრისი (tvalsazrisi), თვალთახედვა (tvaltaxedva)
- German: Blickpunkt m, Perspektive (de) f, Ansicht (de) f, Sicht (de) f, Blickwinkel (de) m
- Greek: άποψη (el) f (ápopsi), θεώρηση (el) f (theórisi), θέση (el) f (thési), οπτική γωνία (el) f (optikí gonía)
- Hungarian: nézőpont (hu), szempont (hu)
- Italian: punto di vista (it) m
- Japanese: 観点 (ja) (かんてん, kanten)
- Kazakh: көзқарас (közqaras)
- Korean: 관점(觀點) (ko) (gwanjeom)
- Latvian: viedoklis m
- Mongolian: үзэл бодол (üzel bodol), ойлголт (mn) (ojlgolt)
- Persian: نقطهنظر (noqte-nazar)
- Polish: punkt widzenia (pl) m
- Portuguese: ponto de vista (pt) m
- Romanian: punct de vedere n
- Russian: то́чка зре́ния (ru) f (tóčka zrénija)
- Scottish Gaelic: ionad-beachd m, ionad-seallaidh m
- Slovak: hľadisko n, uhol pohľadu m
- Spanish: punto de vista (es) m
- Tagalog: pananaw
- Thai: มุมมอง (mum-mɔɔng)
- Turkish: bakış açısı (tr)
- Ukrainian: то́чка зо́ру (uk) f (tóčka zóru)
- Vietnamese: góc nhìn
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attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs
- Arabic: وِجْهَة نَظَر f (wijhat naẓar)
- Armenian: տեսակետ (hy) (tesaket)
- Azerbaijani: nəzər nöqtəsi
- Belarusian: пункт по́гляду m (punkt póhljadu), пункт гле́джання m (punkt hljédžannja)
- Catalan: punt de vista (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 觀點/观点 (zh) (guāndiǎn)
- Czech: úhel pohledu m
- Danish: synsvinkel c
- Dutch: gezichtspunt (nl) n, oogpunt (nl) n
- Esperanto: vidpunkto (eo)
- Finnish: kanta (fi), mielipide (fi), näkökanta (fi), näkemys (fi)
- French: point de vue (fr), opinion (fr)
- Galician: punto de vista (gl) m
- Georgian: თვალსაზრისი (tvalsazrisi), თვალთახედვა (tvaltaxedva)
- German: Standpunkt (de) m, Ansicht (de) f, Sicht (de) f
- Greek: άποψη (el) f (ápopsi), θέση (el) f (thési), στάση (el) f (stási)
- Hindi: दृष्टिकोण (hi) m (dŕṣṭikoṇ)
- Hungarian: álláspont (hu)
- Irish: dearcadh (ga) m
- Italian: punto di vista (it) m
- Japanese: 観点 (ja) (かんてん, kanten)
- Kazakh: көзқарас (közqaras)
- Korean: 관점(觀點) (ko) (gwanjeom)
- Latin: sententia f
- Latvian: viedoklis m
- Mongolian: үзэл бодол (üzel bodol), ойлголт (mn) (ojlgolt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: synspunkt (no) n, synsvinkel m
- Nynorsk: synspunkt n, synsvinkel m
- Polish: punkt widzenia (pl) m
- Portuguese: ponto de vista (pt) m
- Romanian: punct de vedere n, opinie (ro) f
- Russian: то́чка зре́ния (ru) f (tóčka zrénija)
- Sanskrit: दृष्टि (sa) f (dṛṣṭi)
- Scottish Gaelic: ionad-beachd m, ionad-seallaidh m
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: uhol pohľadu m
- Slovene: zórni kót m
- Spanish: punto de vista (es) m
- Tagalog: pananaw, punto de bista
- Thai: มุมมอง (mum-mɔɔng), ทัศนคติ (th) (tát-sà-ná-ká-dtì)
- Turkish: görüş (tr)
- Ukrainian: то́чка зо́ру (uk) f (tóčka zóru)
- Vietnamese: quan điểm (vi)
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