overarching
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]overarching
- present participle and gerund of overarch
Adjective
[edit]overarching (comparative more overarching, superlative most overarching)
- That forms an overhead arch
- (by extension) all-embracing or overwhelming
- Synonyms: all-embracing, all-encompassing
- The work attains narrative continuity, variety in its stories, and unity through the overarching idea of metamorphosis.
- 2020 May 20, David Thrower, Ian Wray, “Revisiting the plan for developing the North's rail network”, in Rail, page 39:
- Firstly, there needs to be an overarching plan - in the sense that each part of the rail system must be considered together, precisely because it is an integrated network.
Translations
[edit]all-embracing
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Noun
[edit]overarching (plural overarchings)
- A structure that arches over something.
- 1875, Julius Sachs, Alfred William Bennett, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological, page 27:
- But in this case the overarchings do not grow uniformly, but in such a manner that their rims form at least a fissure […]
References
[edit]- “overarching”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.