Etymology : pan- + Greek horama sight, from horan to see; more at WARY
Pronunciation : "pa-n&-'ra-m&, -'r&aum
Function : noun
Date : 1796
1. wide view in all directions, full view of a large area. panorama\pan`o*ra"ma\ , n. [nl., fr. gr. , , all + that which is seen, a view, fr. to see:
see pan-, and wary.].
2. a complete view in every direction.
3. a picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.
4. a picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. [panorama n.
5. the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista].
6. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene [syn: cyclorama, diorama].
7. panorama.
8. A complete view in every direction.
9. A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.
10. A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. a picture representing a continuous scene.
11. panorama. panorama. panorama.
12. panorama.
13. 1. A panorama is a view in which you can see:
a long way over a wide area of land, usually because you are on high ground. Horton looked out over a panorama of fertile valleys and gentle hills. = vista.
14. A panorama is a broad view of a state of affairs or of a constantly changing series of events. The play presents a panorama of the history of communism. Narrative scene or landscape painted to conform to a curved or flat background, which surrounds or is unrolled before the viewer. Popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries, it was an antecedent of the stereopticon and motion pictures. The true panorama is exhibited on the walls of a large cylinder, and the viewer stands on a platform in the cylinder's centre and turns around to see:
all points of the horizon. The first panorama, a view of Edinburgh, was executed in 1788 by the Scottish painter Robert Barker (1739-1806). In the mid-19th century the rolled panorama became popular: a painting on canvas was wound between two poles and slowly unrolled behind a frame or revealed in sections.