Meaning of Prospect | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
2. A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
3. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
4. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
5. A position afford a fine view; a lookout.
6. An inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
7. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
8. A local government area in Adelaide, which includes the suburb; in full, the City of Prospect.
9. A suburb of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.
10. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
11. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
12. A hope; a hopeful.
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.

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Examples

“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.”

“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 building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight ...”

“The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.”

“Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake.”

“Their prospect was toward the south.”

“a very ill prospect of a future state”

“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 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. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.”

“And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.”

“It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.”

“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.”

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