vista

Noun

US[vis-tuh]/ˈvɪstə/2 syllables

Synonyms: view aspect prospect scene panorama

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)vistas

the visual percept of a region“the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views”Synonyms: view aspect prospect scene panoramaType of visual percept, visual imageKinds background, foreground, exposure, tableau, glimpse, middle distance, side view, coast

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Translations

Noun distant view or prospect

Spanish: vista
French: vue
German: Aussicht
Italian: vista
Portuguese: vista
Turkish: manzara
Russian: вид vid
Chinese: 景色 jǐngsè
Dutch: uitzicht
Polish: widok

10 more languages

Swedish: utsikt
Greek: θέα théa
Indonesian: pemandangan
Portuguese (PT): vista
Catalan: vista
Danish: udsigt
Finnish: näkymä
Georgian: ხედი xedi
Icelandic: útsýni
Romanian: vedere

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Vis′ta noun; pl. Vistas (#).

Origin: It., sight, view, fr. vedere, p. p. visto, veduto, to see, fr. L. videre, visum. See View, Vision.

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.

The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its alleys green.— James Thomson

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.— Edmund Burke

The shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window.— Sir Walter Scott

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54