English Dictionary

prospective

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹəˈspɛktɪv/

名詞

廃用 くだけた表現 頻度副詞 複数形

(obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect. / (obsolete) A perspective glass.

日本語の意味

眼前の風景や時空間における前景、眺望、展望 / 透視鏡（遠近法を応用した観察用の装置）

From the hilltop we admired the day's prospective, where fishing boats dotted the bay and smoke curled from the shoreline huts.

丘の頂から私たちはその日の前景を眺め、漁船が湾に点在し、岸辺の小屋から煙がくゆっていた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.

the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective

意味（2）

(obsolete) A perspective glass.

意味（3）

1613 March 2 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Masque of the Inner-Temple and Gray’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Inner-Temple;[…]”, in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher:[…], volume IV, London: […] John Stockdale,[…], published 1811, OCLC 910211381, page 573, column 2:

意味（4）

[T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.

意味（5）

(informal, often plural) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.

Would you like to show the prospective around?

prospectives （ plural ）