vista

Definitions

1. noun

   A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.

   Example

   • The sun soon broke forth from that one dark cloud, gradually melting into light; and the sunbeams and the glittering rain went driving together through the forest glades-those long vistas, of which the slender deer seemed the sole habitants.
2. noun

   A site offering such a view.

3. noun

   A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

   Examples

   • a vista of pleasure to come
   • dim vistas of the past
4. verb

   To make a vista or landscape of.

   Example

   • The night had now closed in, and its darkness was only relieved by the wan lamps that vistaed the streets, and a few dim stars that struggled through the reeking haze that curtained the great city.