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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

... hardihood has involved him in cruel and unusual great gloss and unsheltered tailed coat. Any man in his overcoat is wrapped in his castle; he fears nothing. But to this hunted creature, naked in his robin's tail, the whole panorama of the Avenue is merely a blurred audience, focusing upon him a vast glare of derision; he walks swiftly, as upon fire, pretends to careless sidelong interest in shop-windows as he goes, makes play with his unfamiliar cane only to be horror-stricken at the flourishings ...

— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington

... Bonciani's, near the station, a place little patronized by foreigners, but where one obtains the best Tuscan cooking—and after an hour or so over coffee at the Bottegone, I took a taxi up to Fiesole. The night was cold but dry and moonlit. As we ascended the steep hill a glorious panorama spread before us, for below lay the valley of the Arno with the twinkling lights of the ancient city, and the great pale moon upon the shimmering river rendering it like a scene from fairyland. And as we went up beyond San Domenico, through those lands which in spring and summer are so fruitful ...

— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux

... in robes in the bottom of the sled, idly watched the panorama of tree-trunks between which the road twisted in an endless ...

— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx

... had picked by chance on the harbour with its fleet of steamers that threaded every bay and cove, and little by little, in the exaltation of the senses following his love for this woman, the swish of the water slipping past the bows, the panorama of rock and sandy beach, and the salt smell of the sea were for ever part of this strange, emotional condition where reality and dream blended without visible ...

— Jonah • Louis Stone

... these short narrative descriptions treat of the bird's characteristics of size, color, and flight; its peculiarities of instinct and temperament; its nest and home life; its choice of food; its songs; and of the season in which we may expect it to play its part in the great panorama Nature unfolds with faithful precision year after year. They are an attempt to make the bird so live before the reader that, when seen out of doors, its recognition shall be instant and cordial, like that ...

— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan

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