perusal

English

Etymology

peruse +‎ -al

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -uːzəl

Noun

perusal (countable and uncountable, plural perusals)

The act of perusing; studying something carefully.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:
  These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.

Related terms

peruse

Translations

studying something carefully

Bulgarian: изучаване (bg) n (izučavane)
Finnish: tutkiminen (fi), huolellinen lukeminen
Greek: μελετώ προσεκτικά (meletó prosektiká)

Icelandic: lestur (is) m
Latin: pellectiō f
Russian: рассмотре́ние (ru) n (rassmotrénije), рассма́тривание (ru) n (rassmátrivanije), осмо́тр (ru) m (osmótr), прочте́ние (ru) n (pročténije), чте́ние (ru) n (čténije) (reading), изуче́ние (ru) n (izučénije) (study), иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije) (research), перлюстра́ция (ru) f (perljustrácija) (perlustration)

Anagrams

epurals, serpula

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