what is the definition of of the word perspective?
Learner's definition of PERSPECTIVE. 1. : a way of thinking about and understanding something (such as a particular issue or life in general) [count] He helped us see the problem from a new perspective. [=angle, point of view] The story is told from the perspective of a teenage boy in the 1940s. marriage as seen from a male/female perspective. From an economic perspective, the policy has some merit.