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prospect
English
Etymology
From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- +? -spect
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?-sp?kt?, IPA(key): /p???sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: pros?pect
Noun
prospect (plural prospects)
- 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.
- Their prospect was toward the south.
- The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
- 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.
Translations
Verb
prospect (third-person singular simple present prospects, present participle prospecting, simple past and past participle prospected)
- (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
- (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
Translations
Anagrams
- croppest
Romanian
Etymology
From German Prospekt
Noun
prospect n (plural prospecte)
- brochure
Declension
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confidence
English
Alternative forms
- confidency (dated)
Etymology
From Latin c?nf?dentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from c?nf?d? (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + f?d? (“trust”).
Morphologically confide +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?n'f?d?ns, IPA(key): /?k?nf?d?ns/
Noun
confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)
- Self-assurance.
- A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
- Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
- (dated) Boldness; presumption.
Antonyms
- (self-assurance): timidity
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
- confidence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?nf?dentia. Doublet of confiance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.fi.d??s/
Noun
confidence f (plural confidences)
- confidence, secret
Related terms
- confident
References
- “confidence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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