prospect
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
prospect (plural prospects)
- The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗, lines 543–552:
- As when a Scout […] Obtains the brow of ſome high-climbing Hill, / Which to his eye diſcovers unaware / The goodly proſpect of ſome forein land / Firſt-ſeen, or ſome renownd Metropolis / With gliſtering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, / Which now the Riſing Sun guilds with his beams.
- A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
- A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗, lines 77–79:
- Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake.
- Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Ezekiel 40:44 ↗:
- Their prospect was toward the south.
- The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242 ↗:
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
- The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
- A hope; a hopeful.
- (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
- (sales) A potential client or customer.
- (music) The façade of an organ.
- French: perspective
- German: Sicht, Perspektive
- Portuguese: perspectiva
- German: Aussicht
- French: perspective
- German: Erwartung, Chance
- Portuguese: expectativa
- French: perspective
- Portuguese: expectativa
- Russian: перспекти́ва
- Spanish: expectativa, prospectiva, porvenir
prospect (prospects, present participle prospecting; past and past participle prospected)
- (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
- (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
- French: prospecter
- German: schürfen
- French: prospecter
- Portuguese: prospectar
- Spanish: prospectar
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