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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
  2. n. An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
  3. n. An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: "the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up” ( Arthur C. Danto).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A view or prospect, especially through an avenue, as between rows of trees; hence, the trees or other things that form the avenue.
  2. n. Hence Figuratively, a vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination: as, a vista of pleasure to come; dim vistas of the past.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or a passage
  2. n. A site offering such a view.
  3. n. figuratively A vision, a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the visual percept of a region

Etymologies

  1. From Italian vista ("view, sight"), from visto, past participle of vedere ("to see"), from Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō ("I see"). Compare vision, video. (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian, from feminine past participle of vedere, to see, from Latin vidēre. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. view

hypernyms (2)

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  1. visual image
  1. visual percept

hyponyms (9)

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  1. exposure
  1. tableau
  1. middle distance
  1. background
  1. ground
  1. side view
  1. glimpse
  1. coast
  1. foreground

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. expanse
  2. panorama
  3. landscape
  4. avenue
  1. glimpse
  2. maze
  3. horizon
  4. surrounding
  1. stillness
  2. splendor
  3. sweep
  4. vision
  1. depth
  2. solitude
  3. wilderness
  4. solitudes
  1. reach
  2. background
  3. spectacle
  4. desolation
  1. glade
  2. valley

rhymes (6)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Christa
  1. Crista
  1. Krista
  1. arista
  1. batiste
  1. crista

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  1. visto
  2. Ferris wheel
  1. a prima vista
  2. on
  1. spread
  2. behold
  1. enfilade
  2. perspective
  1. view
  2. vistaed
  1. vista

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