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VISTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The visual percept of a region
Example:
the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views
Synonyms:
aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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:
From where they now stood they could look forward down a long vista of beech woods and jagged rock-strewn wilderness, all white with snow, to where the pass opened out upon the uplands beyond.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The vistas he saw were vistas of green foliage and forest glades, all softly luminous or shot through with flashing lights.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
