Word Meaning

review definition and meaning

n. To view or see again; to look back on.
n. To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
n. To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.
n. To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.
n. To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.
n. To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.
n. To retrace; to go over again.
v. i. To look back; to make a review.
n. A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.
n. An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.
n. A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.
n. A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
n. An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.
n. The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.
n. A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

Crossword clues for review

- Critique
- Inspect
- Look at or examine again
- Look at or inspect again
- Look over again
- Summon up