Definition of Prospect

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Prospect

That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

A position affording a fine view; a lookout.

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

The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.

That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.

To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.

To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.

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Prospect Quotations

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James Madison

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce

Prospect Translations

prospect in German is Sicht {f}, Erwartung {f}, Aussicht {f}
prospect in Swedish is utsikt

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