vista

«vista» in Mova's school dictionary: a beautiful, wide view, especially a long one seen… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a vista, vistas)

meaning for a pupil

1) A vista is a beautiful, wide view, especially a long one seen between hills, trees or buildings. tree →

2) (formal) A vista can also mean a range of future possibilities: «Reading opens new vistas.» tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and descriptive writing, vistas describe landscapes from hilltops and mountains. In geography and travel, «sweeping vistas» of valleys and coasts. In formal speech, «opening up new vistas» means giving new chances. Phrases: «a stunning vista», «sweeping vistas», «open up new vistas».

examples

• From the top of the hill we saw a wonderful vista of fields and rivers. tree →
• The train passed through sweeping mountain vistas. tree →
• The window framed a vista of the sea. tree →
• Learning to read opened up whole new vistas for Gran. tree →
• The photographer captured the vista at sunset. tree →
• The path ended at a vista over the lake. tree →
• Halting at the entrance, they gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars, that were ranged from end to end of a great hall. tree →

note

Countable: vista, vistas. It comes from Italian and Spanish, meaning «view». Rather literary; in everyday speech, «view» is more common.

In the corpora

• Connor hands in an essay about "the breathtaking vistas of the Mediterranean".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vista» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.