BIRD'S-EYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bird's-eye mean? 

• BIRD'S-EYE (adjective)
  The adjective BIRD'S-EYE has 1 sense:

1. as from an altitude or distance

  Familiarity information: BIRD'S-EYE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRD'S-EYE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As from an altitude or distance

Synonyms:

bird's-eye; panoramic

Context example:

a panoramic view

Similar:

broad; wide (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)

 Context examples 

It was a bird's-eye view of creation, as interpreted by science, which, in language always clear and sometimes picturesque, he unfolded before us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)