n. The act of viewing, seeing, or beholding; examination by the eye; survey; inspection; look; sight.n. The act of perceiving by the mind; mental survey; intellectual inspection or examination; observation; consideration.n. Power of seeing or perception, either physical or mental; range of vision; reach of sight; extent of prospect.n. That which is viewed, seen, or beheld; something which is looked upon; sight or spectacle presented to the eye or to the mind; scene; prospect.n. A scene as represented by painting, drawing, or photography; a picture or sketch, especially a landscape.n. Manner or mode of looking at things; manner of regarding subjects on which various opinions may be held; judgment; opinion; conception; notion; way of thinking; theory.n. Something looked toward or forming the subject of consideration; intention; design; purpose; aim.n. Appearance; show; aspect.n. In law, an inspection by the jury of property or a place the appearance or condition of which is involved in the case, or useful to enable the jury to understand the testimony, as of a place where a crime has been committed.n. Specifically, inspection of a dead body; an autopsy.n. The footing of a beast.n. In Anglo-Saxon law, the office of a sheriff in seeing all the frank-pledges of a hundred, and that all youths above fourteen belonged to some tithing: a function of the court-leet.n. Synonyms 4 and View, Prospect, Scene, Landscape. View is the most general of these words; prospect most suggests the idea that the beholder is at a place somewhat elevated, so as to be able to see far; scene most suggests the idea of resemblance to a picture; landscape most suggests the idea of diversity in unity.To see; look on; behold.To examine with the eye; look on with attention, or for the purpose of examining; survey; explore; peruse.To survey intellectually; examine with the mental eye; consider; regard.Synonyms To witness.To scan.To contemplate.To look; take a view.