prospect

PROS'PECT, noun [Latin prospectus, prospicio, to look forward; pro and specio, to see.] 1. View of things within the reach of the eye. Eden and all the coast in prospect lay. 2. View of things to come; intellectual sight; expectation. The good man enjoys the prospect of future felicity. 3. That which is presented to the eye; the place and the objects seen. There is a noble prospect from the dome of the state house in Boston, a prospect diversified with land and water, and every thing that can please the eye. 4. Object of view. Man to himself Is a large prospect 5. View delineated or painted; picturesque representation of a landscape. 6. Place which affords an extended view. 7. Position of the front of a building; as a prospect towards the south or north. Ezekiel 40:44. 8. Expectation, or ground of expectation. There is a prospect of a good harvest. A man has a prospect of preferment; or he has little prospect of success. 9. A looking forward; a regard to something future. Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, who lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to or provision for the remaining part of life? [Little used.]