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VISTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vista mean? 

VISTA (noun)
  The noun VISTA has 1 sense:

1. the visual percept of a regionplay

  Familiarity information: VISTA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VISTA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The visual percept of a region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista

Context example:

the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views

Hypernyms ("vista" is a kind of...):

visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vista"):

background; ground (the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground)

coast (the area within view)

exposure (aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces)

foreground (the part of a scene that is near the viewer)

glimpse (a brief or incomplete view)

middle distance (the part of a scene between the foreground and the background)

side view (a view from the side of something)

tableau (any dramatic scene)


 Context examples 


Beyond this room there were three others, reaching the length of the house, to which you passed through three doors, opposite to each other, in the manner of a vista.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

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.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had caught a glimpse of the apparently illimitable vistas of knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It appeared to be very large; neither to east nor to west could I see any end to the vista of green-capped cliffs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though selected as a science destination, Pillinger Point also offers a scenic vista from atop the western rim of Endeavour Crater, which is about 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter.

(Aluminum-Bearing Site on Mars Draws NASA Visitor, NASA)

His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And here I was, with dreary and endless vistas before me of table-setting, potato-peeling, and dish-washing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Line after line, and rank after rank, they choked the neck of the valley with a long vista of tossing pennons, twinkling lances, waving plumes and streaming banderoles, while the curvets and gambades of the chargers lent a constant motion and shimmer to the glittering, many-colored mass.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A mile above the forks, running velvet-footed as was his custom, a gliding shadow that cautiously prospected each new vista of the trail, he came upon later imprints of the large tracks he had discovered in the early morning.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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