prospects

SEE DEFINITION OF prospects

nounoutlook for future
nounlandscape, vista
verblook for; seek

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mailing list

noun. address list

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recipients
subscribers

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "act of looking into the distance," from Latin prospectus "distant view, look out; sight, faculty of sight," noun use of past participle of prospicere "look out on, look forward," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + specere "look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "extensive view of the landscape" is from 1530s; transferred sense of "mental view or survey" is from 1620s. Sense of "person or thing considered promising" is from 1922. Prospects "expectations, things looked forward to" is from 1660s.

Example Sentences forprospects

Prospects, that I had meditated with ineffable delight, were for ever veiled in darkness.

“California: its Characteristics and Prospects,” cited, 200.

Prospects were bright, and hearts were light, just to drop into poetry.

"Prospects" do not just "happen" in the selling process of achieving success.

He had, he says, received fifteen letters on the Prospects of Culture.

Prospects were bright, and we sailed steadily northward, wondering what the morrow would bring—disappointment or hope?

Prospects were not cheering, and the salaries offered would about have kept me in cigarettes at Oxford.

Prospects that appear to have no gold at all in them sometimes turn out very brightly, sir.

Prospects looked good for the following season, as the fishermen expected the scallops to live until the next year.

The beginning of vine-planting is like the beginning of mining for the precious metals: the wine-grower also “Prospects.”

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