Definitions for prospect

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prospect pros·pect

Spelling: [pros-pekt]

IPA: /ˈprɒs pɛkt/

Prospect is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in prospect (ceopprst).

Definitions for prospect

noun

1. Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future:
2. anticipation; expectation; a looking forward.
3. something in view as a source of profit.
4. a potential or likely customer, client, etc.
5. a potential or likely candidate.
6. a view, especially of scenery; scene.
7. outlook or view over a region or in a particular direction.
8. a mental view or survey, as of a subject or situation.
9. Mining. an apparent indication of ore or native metal. a place giving such indications. a mine working or excavation undertaken in a search for additional ore.
10. Archaic. sight; range of vision.

Idioms

1. in prospect, under consideration; expected; in view:

verb (used with object)

1. to search or explore (a region), as for gold.
2. to work (a mine or claim) experimentally in order to test its value.

verb (used without object)

1. to search or explore a region for gold or the like.

Origin of prospect

1400-50; late Middle English prospecte Latin prōspectus outlook, view. See prospectus

Examples for prospect

Some on 'prospect,'—'Hermitage'—and 'Woodland' treat all right.

Uninterrupted, they marched to within a few hundred yards of prospect Hill.

As a child of Tornado Alley myself, I endorse the sentiment in this American prospect piece by Monica Potts.

The view from the prospect, however, is the town's chief present glory.

prospect of war the cause of the formation of the Royal Flying Corps.

She thanked him now over her cellphone as she stood in the Clean and Bright Laundromat on prospect Avenue.

At The American prospect, Abby Rapoport cites a new study as evidence it won't happen.

Then, German troops enlisted by the Brits (Hessians) began to attack at Battle Pass, located in prospect Park.

There was a house on prospect Street, nearly finished, and I engaged it.

He married Chirlane in a ceremony in prospect Park in Brooklyn.