Review
Pronunciation
- IPA: /rɪˈvjuË/
- Rhymes: -uË
Origin
From Middle French reveue (French: revue), feminine past participle of revoir (French: revoir), from Latin revidere.
Full definition of review
Noun
review
(plural reviews)- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.
- (legal) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.The victims demanded a full judical review of the case.
- A stage show made up of sketches etc.The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.
- A survey of the available items or material.The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.The Times Literary Review is published in London.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.
Derived terms
Verb
- To survey; to look broadly over.Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.The critic reviews every new play in London.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- (obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
- 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act IV, scene iv, in The Works of Mr. William Shakeſpear; in Eight Volumes, volume II (1709), page 954:Camillo What I do next, ſhall be next to tell the King // Of this Eſcape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ſhall ſo prevail, // To force him after: in whoſe company // I ſhall review Sicilia; for whoſe ſight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.
- (obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.
- 1726, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer (author), Odyssey, book III, lines 127–128, in The Odyſſey of Homer, volume I (1760), page 113:Shall I the long, laborious ſcene review, // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?