Usually means: Brief summary of main points.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word synopsis:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. synopsis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. synopsis: Merriam-Webster
  3. synopsis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. synopsis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. synopsis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. synopsis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Synopsis, synopsis: Wordnik
  8. synopsis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. synopsis: Wiktionary
  10. synopsis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. synopsis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. synopsis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. synopsis: Dictionary.com
  14. synopsis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Synopsis (Russian literature), Synopsis (disambiguation), Synopsis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Synopsis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. synopsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. synopsis: Rhymezone
  19. Synopsis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. synopsis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. synopsis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. synopsis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. synopsis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. synopsis: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. synopsis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. synopsis: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
noun:  A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
noun:  (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

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