OVERARCHING meaning: Encompassing or dominating everything below

We found 15 dictionaries that define the word overarching:

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overarching: Merriam-Webster.com
overarching, overarching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
overarching: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
overarching: Collins English Dictionary
overarching: Vocabulary.com
Overarching, overarching: Wordnik
overarching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
overarching: Wiktionary
overarching: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
overarching: Infoplease Dictionary
overarching: Dictionary.com
overarching: Free Dictionary
overarching: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  That forms an overhead arch
▸ adjective:  (by extension) all-embracing or overwhelming
▸ noun:  A structure that arches over something.

Types:

theory, principle, law, rule, axiom, principal, theorem, more...

Phrases:

overarching theme, overarching category, overarching entity, overarching spirit, overarching narrative, more...

Adjectives:

more, single, tall, such, new, last, major, less, dense, common, only

Colors:

blue, green, red, yellow, purple, more...

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