survey

1. 1.

   a detailed critical inspection

   Synonymsstudy

   Broaderexamination

   Narrowerresurvey
2. 2.

   short descriptive summary (of events)

   Synonymssketchresume

   Broadersummary
3. 3.

   the act of looking or seeing or observing

   “he tried to get a better view of it”

   “his survey of the battlefield was limited”

   Synonymsviewsight

   Broaderlook

   Narrowereyeful

Other forms of survey

plural

surveys·

past tense

surveyed·

present participle

surveying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about survey

What does survey mean?

survey means "consider in a comprehensive way". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in survey?

survey has 2 syllables: sur-vey. The stress falls on "vey". In IPA it is /sɚˈveɪ/.

What is another word for survey?

Close synonyms include appraise, surveil, follow, review, go over. 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 survey a common word?

survey is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with survey?

2 words rhyme with survey. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.