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OVERLOOKING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of a height or viewpoint
Example:
the balcony overlooking the ballroom
Synonyms:
commanding; dominating; overlooking
Classified under:
Similar:
high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb overlook
Context examples:
In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She was sitting on a seat at one end of a kind of terrace, overlooking the great city.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The room was a pleasant one, at the top of the house, overlooking the sea, on which the moon was shining brilliantly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air, as if there were no such thing as change on earth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
