prospect

IPA: prˈɑspɛkt

The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
A picturesque or panoramic 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.
The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
A hope; a hopeful.
(sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
(sales) A potential client or customer.
(music) The façade of an organ.
A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
An inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
The City of Prospect, a local government area in Adelaide which includes the suburb.

(intransitive) To search, as for gold.
(geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

Examples of "prospect" in Sentences

Either prospect is a development to be anticipated in 1975.
To me, a prospect is always better than a pick if they are of comparable value.
Even so, the prospect is there, no matter how obscure and uncertain the path to it may be.
No, Ellee I don't think I could cope with a whole class of kids - the prospect is a scarey one for me.
Helleborine, who could be the better long-term prospect, is 8-1, but must have the French Guineas as an alternative.
If this prospect is a real one, then we must start now to prepare our case for having a withdrawal question on the ballot paper.
But few people with the specialised knowledge I have would give up their jobs and join the police when the prospect is a minimum of 4 years in a job where that experience is useless.
So it has suddenly discovered that, though the prospect is as yet still distant, its huge parliamentary advantage is under threat in a way that it never would have been had we never had devolution.