Vista
['vɪstə]
Definition
(n.) A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.
Typist: Zamenhof
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. View (especially through an avenue), prospect, perspective.
Edited by Ethelred
Definition
n. a view or prospect through or as through an avenue: the trees &c. that form the avenue.
Inputed by Alphonso
Examples
- We looked down the whole vista, and saw it closed by iron gates, and it could not have been more than a furlong in length. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- If he had been successful at Buena Vista his troops would no doubt have made a more stubborn resistance at Cerro Gordo. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The vista of street and bridge was plain to see, and the sky was serene and beautiful. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before, Repeating things behind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Bucket looks at him as if his face were a vista of some miles in length and he were leisurely contemplating the same. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And now a new vista of peril opened before her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The whole vista had no one in it now but himself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A new vista was opened up to him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To one of Edison's enthusiastic self-confidence the long vista of difficulties ahead--we say it in all sincerity--must have been alluring. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It had already found expression in the work of such young poets as Tennyson, who had glanced down the vista of the future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The corridor offers a cheerful vista, leading to the high vestibule which opens direct upon the street. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It's a farce--a crazy farce, he repeated, his eyes fixed on the long vista of the room reflected in the blotched glass between the windows. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There has been no inventor who has covered such a field, and each step he takes opens new and fascinating vistas to his ever-inquiring eyes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Ascending to the roof of the building I watched her for hours, until finally she was lost in the dim vistas of the distance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Typed by Arthur