How to pronounce“prospect”in English
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Definitions of “prospect”
The region which the eye overlooks at one time; a view; a scene; an 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.”
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.”
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 offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.”
To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
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