point of view

1. A position from which something is perceived; outlook; standpoint.

   From an economist's point of view, business is all about money.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:

     From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

2. An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs.

   His point of view is that there is only one true religion.

3. (literary theory) The perspective from which a narrative is related.

   The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator.

• standpoint
• viewpoint
• perspective
• POV

• French: point de vue
• German: Blickpunkt, Perspektive, Ansicht, Sicht, Blickwinkel
• Italian: punto di vista
• Portuguese: ponto de vista
• Russian: то́чка зре́ния
• Spanish: punto de vista, punto observacional

• French: point de vue, opinion
• German: Standpunkt, Ansicht, Sicht
• Italian: punto di vista
• Portuguese: ponto de vista
• Russian: то́чка зре́ния
• Spanish: punto de vista, óptica

• German: Perspektive, Sicht, Blickwinkel
• Portuguese: ponto de vista
• Russian: то́чка зре́ния