Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - perspective

(perspectives) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A particular perspective is a particular way of thinking about something, especially one that is influenced by your beliefs or experiences. He says the death of his father 18 months ago has given him a new perspective on life... Most literature on the subject of immigrants in France has been written from the perspective of the French themselves... I would like to offer a historical perspective. N-COUNT: usu with supp 2. If you get something in perspective or into perspective, you judge its real importance by considering it in relation to everything else. If you get something out of perspective, you fail to judge its real importance in relation to everything else. Remember to keep things in perspective... It helps to put their personal problems into perspective... I let things get out of perspective. PHRASE: PHR after v 3. Perspective is the art of making some objects or people in a picture look further away than others. N-UNCOUNT