bird's eye view

1. 1.

   a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distance

   Synonymspanoramic view

   Broaderposition

Questions about bird's eye view

What does bird's eye view mean?

bird's eye view means "a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distance".

What is another word for bird's eye view?

Close synonyms include panoramic view. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bird's eye view a common word?

bird's eye view is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.