synopsis

A brief outline or general view, as of a subject or written work; an abstract or a summary.

A summary or brief statement giving a general view of some subject; a compendium of heads or short paragraphs so arranged as to afford a view of the whole or of principal parts of a matter under consideration; a conspectus.

In the Gr. Ch., a prayer-book for the use of the laity, of the same character as that described under anthology, 3.

A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.

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.