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Prospect

noun

1.

The possibility of future success. Synonym: chance.

2.

Belief about (or mental picture of) the future. Synonyms: expectation, outlook.

3.

Someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.). Synonym: candidate.

4.

The visual percept of a region. Synonyms: aspect, panorama, scene, view, vista.

5.

A prediction of the course of a disease. Synonyms: medical prognosis, prognosis.

verb

(past & past part. prospected; pres. part. prospecting)

1.

Search for something desirable.

2.

Explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals.

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"Prospect" Quotes from Famous Books

... grown-up folk in their melodies. From the verandas and from the church at night issued the peculiar strain of the himene, somehow bringing to me, lying on my mat under the stars, a sense of fitness to the prospect—the clear heavens, the purple lagoon, the wind in the groves, and the low rumble ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... of the Austrian enemy. Budapest, capital of Hungary, became panic-stricken at the Russian advance and the Servian victory, and the year 1914 closed with every evidence that the people of Austria, at any rate, were tired of the war, discontented at the prospect, and desirous of peace. ...

— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell

... bottle under his arm, and then I learnt that the abbot had given orders that I was to pass the night dans la chambre de Monseigneur. The prospect of sleeping in the bishop's bed furnished me with a conscientious reason for not drawing the cork from the second bottle of monastic barley-brew; but my companion, who was more or less in religion, did not give me a chance of refusing, for ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... settlement about five miles off, called Daneboro. It was probably the nearest place where he could get a glass of whisky. He must walk there. It was not a pleasant prospect, for the tramp was lazy and not fond of walking, though he had been compelled to do a good deal of it. Still, it seemed to be a necessity, and when he left the store of Joe Marks he set out ...

— The Young Bank Messenger • Horatio Alger

... find a way to get Tom and Judie and Joe into one of the forts or into some safe town, and how to do this was the problem. He was unwilling to take them away from their present pretty secure hiding-place until he could decide upon some definite plan offering a reasonable prospect of escape. If he could have known as much as we now know of the movements of the savages, he would have had little difficulty. The larger part of the Indians had left the peninsula now forming Clarke ...

— The Big Brother - A Story of Indian War • George Cary Eggleston

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