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vista

Syllables: vis·ta/ˈvɪstə/

vista noun: a distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.

Noun

vista (plural vistas)

  1. 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271
    • 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...1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136
  2. A site offering such a view.
  3. (figuratively) 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

vista (third-person singular simple present vistas, present participle vistaing, simple past and past participle vistaed)

  1. (transitive) 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.1896, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Eugene Aram

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Vista

Vista

  1. A city in San Diego County, California, United States.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Vista

Vista

  1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Windows Vista.

vista meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi

vista in Hindi

distant view or prospect
नज़ारा nazārā, दृश्य dŕśya

vista in Urdu

وسٹا

vista in Bengali

ভিস্তা

vista in Punjabi

ਵਿਸਟਾ

Examples of vista in a sentence

  • Open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets.
  • And while our discourse might be a disaster area, the imaginative vistas of the Internet are far more vast than the modest plot of our feeds.2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe:

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Forms of vista

Noun
pluralvistas
Verb
third-person singular presentvistas
present participlevistaing
past participlevistaed
pastvistaed

Plural of vista: vistas

Origin of vista

Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, visa.

From Spanish vista (“view”). One settler in the Vista area, John A. Frazier, applied to open the first post office and after several attempts to name the city (Frazier and Buena Vista were already taken), Frazier finally chose the name Vista.

From vista.

Words formed from vista

Phrases with vista

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Questions about vista

What does vista mean?
Vista means a distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
What is vista in Hindi?
Vista in Hindi is नज़ारा (nazārā), दृश्य (dŕśya). See Vista meaning in Hindi.
How do you use vista in a sentence?
Open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets.
What part of speech is vista?
Vista can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vista?
Vista is pronounced /ˈvɪstə/.
What is the plural of vista?
The plural of vista is vistas.

Words near vista in the dictionary

  1. Vispered
  2. viss
  3. Visscher
  4. Visschers
  5. visses
  6. vista
  7. Vista Santa Rosa
  8. vistaed
  9. vistaing
  10. vistal
  11. vistaless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vista (page history and authors); Vista (page history and authors); vista (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vista (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vista (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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