Word Finder - prospect

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The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

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A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

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A position affording a fine view; a lookout.

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Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

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The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.

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The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.

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A hope; a hopeful.

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Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.

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(sales) A potential client or customer.

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The façade of an organ.

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To search, as for gold.

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To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

There was a prospect of conviction.

Just the prospect frightens me to death.

He sat back for a moment, heart pounding at the prospect of what he was about to do.

He is definitely an exciting prospect for the new season.

The same century was not ended before the prospect of liberty dawned on the Jews.

He couldn't help feeling thrilled at the prospect of Damian's son.

One must have the prospect of a promised land to have the strength to move.

Speechless, Rhyn's heart flip-flopped at the prospect of seeing his mate again.

Yet I sustained myself by the prospect of such reading in future.

Any prospect of awakening or coming to life to a dead man makes indifferent all times and places.

His spirits rose at the prospect of rejoining the army.

In 493 the imminent prospect of a Persian invasion brought into power men like Themistocles and Miltiades (qq.v.), to whose firmness and insight the Athenians largely owed their triumph in the great campaign of 490 against Persia.

Very soon, probably within a matter of weeks, the British people will face the prospect of a new general election.

It was an exciting prospect.

The final, however, was a more daunting prospect.

A tribunal could strike out an application where it believed there was no reasonable prospect of success.

The prospect over the town and its environs from Mount Eden is justly famous.

On the north of the Tsze-kin ch'eng, and separated from it by a moat, is an artificial mound known as the King shan, or "Prospect Hill."

In 1789 he married Sophie Allegre, and every prospect seemed to be brightening.

There seems no realistic prospect of shifting the burden of fighting to Iraqi or other allies.

The prospect was so splendid that she hardly believed it would come true, so out of keeping was it with the chill darkness and closeness of the carriage.

Though I so love him and trust his every word, I can't help but tremble at even the prospect I shall at last exchange this soiled and despicable life for another.

Public opinion, excited by the prospect of a war with Chile, naturally supported the candidature of General Roca, and he elected without opposition (12th October 1898).

Putting Sophie into a home offers the tantalizing prospect of a return to "normal life," Judith speculates.

Few attempts, however, have been made to prospect systematically for this valuable mineral.

To the mass of the people the restoration of the old governments undoubtedly brought a sense of relief, for the terrible drain in men and money caused by Napoleon's wars had caused much discontent, whereas now there was a prospect of peace and rest.

The prospect of a final settlement was improved by the withdrawal of Germany and Austria, which had favoured Turkish pretensions, from the European concert (April 1898); the remaining powers divided the island into four departments, which they severally undertook to administer.

The brilliant success of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, in which Wagnerian technique is applied to the diatonic style of nursery songs with a humorous accuracy undreamed of by Wagner's imitators, points a moral which would have charmed Wagner himself; but until the revival of some rudiments of musical common sense becomes widespread, there is little prospect of the influence of Wagner's harmonic style being productive of anything better than nonsense.

Please don't be intimidated by the prospect of taking part.

Kiera's heart still did somersaults, and she felt both doubtful Evelyn would follow through and ecstatic at the prospect.

It seemed an unlikely prospect, but on issues where the children were involved, she was generally correct.

At several stations enjoying a wide prospect the dissipation has been observed to be specially high on days of great visibility when distant mountains can be recognized.

In the year 91, which brought with it the imminent prospect of sweeping political change, with the enfranchisement of the Italian peoples, Sulla returned to Rome, and it was generally felt that he was the man to lead the conservative and aristocratic party.

She had regarded the prospect of death with courage and almost with levity, laughing heartily as she put her hands about her "little neck" and recalled the skill of the executioner.

Godoy, having the prospect of the Algarve before him, likewise offered no opposition to the advance of Napoleon's troops to the capital; and so it came about that Murat, named by Napoleon his Lieutenant in Spain, was able to enter Madrid in force and without opposition from that usually clannish populace.

Great Britain must never conduct her affairs so that the navy of any one power could engage her at any moment with a reasonable prospect of success.

Though Wagner cannot as yet be confidently credited with a satiric intention in his bathos, the fact remains that all the Rossinian passages are associated with the character of Daland, so as to express his vulgar delight at the prospect of finding a rich son-in-law in the mysterious Dutch seaman.

He did not relish the prospect of the administrative work which might ultimately have fallen on him at Greenwich.

A considerable deficit, of about £16,000,000, was in prospect, and the chancellor of the exchequer aroused misgivings by alluding in a speech to the difficulty he had in deciding what "hen roost" to "rob."

Among the parks are Broadway Park, Central Hill Park, Prospect Hill Park, Lincoln Park, and Nathan Tufts Park.

Many pet owners are uncomfortable with the prospect of using chemical products on their pets, opting instead to try herbal remedies.

The devil here assumes very much the characteristics of the punishing and just God of the Old Testament, and the prospect is even held out of his ultimate pardon.

But fearing the prospect, they induced Maximilian, who had retired to Orizaba for his 1 Diaz refused parole, and was confined at Puebla for some months, but made his escape, and was soon in the field again.

Although both parties had declared the Compromise of 1850 a finality, the Democrats alone were thoroughly united in support of this declaration, and therefore seemed to offer the greater prospect of peace.

Prospect, at the base of which there is a vein of pyrrhotite, with small quantities of nickel and copper.

Each one, however, was attached and led onward by the prospect of a higher rank to be attained, while the intellectually gifted had an additional inducement in the assurance that they did not require to submit themselves to any authority, but would be led to God by pure reason.

Between 1891 and 1901 the number of farmers in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime provinces decreased, and there seemed a prospect of the country being divided into a manufacturing east and an agricultural west, but latterly large tracts in northern Ontario and Quebec have proved suitable for cultivation and are being opened up.

Since that time any prospect of Canada's union to the United States has been very remote.

On Prospect Hill on the, 8th of July 1775 Israel Putnam raised the "Appeal to Heaven" flag, and here also is said to have been raised on the 1st of January 1776 one of the earliest of the Continental standards, the Union Jack and Stripes.

The prospect of the city with its cupolas, towers, spires and the copper green roofs of its palaces, as seen from the distance, is one of striking beauty.