prospect

Meanings

1. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
2. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
3. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
4. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
5. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
6. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
7. A hope; a hopeful.
8. Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
9. A potential client or customer.
10. The façade of an organ.

1. To search, as for gold.
2. To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

1. To have or afford a view; to face or look out.
2. To look or face towards; to view.

1. A number of places in the United States:
2. A town in New Haven County, Connecticut.
3. An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Georgia.
4. A census-designated place in French Lick Township, Orange County, Indiana.
5. A city in Jefferson County and Oldham County, Kentucky.
6. A town in Waldo County, Maine.
7. A hamlet in the town of Trenton, Oneida County, New York.
8. A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina.
9. A village in Marion County, Ohio.
10. A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon.
11. A borough in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
12. An unincorporated community in Bradley County, Tennessee.

Etymology

From Middle English prospecte, from Latin prōspectus (“view, sight, prospect; panorama”), from prōspiciō (“to look forward”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns), from pro (“before, forward”) + speciō, spiciō (“to look, to see”). By surface analysis, pro- + -spect. Doublet of prospectus and prospekt. The verb is from the noun.