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- 1 A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
- 2 A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- 3 An inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
- 4 A local government area in Adelaide, which includes the suburb; in full, the City of Prospect.
- 5 A suburb of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.
- 1 The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
"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."
- 2 a prediction of the course of a disease wordnet
- 3 A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
"I went to Putney, and other places on the Thames, to take prospects in crayon, to carry into France, where I thought to have them engraved."
- 4 the visual percept of a region wordnet
- 5 A position afford a fine view; a lookout.
"Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake."
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- 6 belief about (or mental picture of) the future wordnet
- 7 Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
"Their prospect was toward the south."
- 8 someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) wordnet
- 9 The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
"a very ill prospect of a future state"
- 10 the possibility of future success wordnet
- 11 The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
"The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end."
- 12 A hope; a hopeful.
"The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott."
- 13 Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
- 14 A potential client or customer.
- 15 The façade of an organ.
- 1 To search, as for gold. intransitive
"Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik."
- 2 explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals wordnet
- 3 To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
- 4 search for something desirable wordnet
Etymology
From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- + -spect. Doublet of prospectus.
From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- + -spect. Doublet of prospectus.
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