OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37631

prospect

/ˈpɹɒspɛkt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
perspectiva
The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
panorama • vista
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.
She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the bu…
expectativa • prospección • prospectiva
The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
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?
a very ill prospect of a future state
expectativa • perspectiva • porvenir • prospectiva • prospecto
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.
We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 37632

prospect

/ˈpɹɒspɛkt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
catear
To search, as for gold.
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 off…
prospectar
To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.