vista
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈvɪstə/ / /ˈviːstə/
name
Etymology: From vista.
- Ellipsis of Windows Vista.
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, visa.
- A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
“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.”
“We had our reward for our high camp and early start, for the sky was still clear, the view magnificent, with fresh vistas to the north of mountains in Tibet, of Gurla Mandhata, massive, majestic to the northeast, and further to the north, a distant pyramid, Kailash, most holy of all mountains in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.”
- A site offering such a view.
- A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.
“a vista of pleasure to come”
“dim vistas of the past”
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, visa.
- To make a vista or landscape of.
“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.”