prospect

1. 1.

   search for something desirable

   “prospect a job”

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2. 2.

   explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals

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Other forms of prospect

plural

prospects·

past tense

prospected·

present participle

prospecting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prospect

What does prospect mean?

prospect means "the possibility of future success". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prospect?

prospect has 2 syllables: pro-spect. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɑspɛkt/.

What is another word for prospect?

Close synonyms include chance, expectation, outlook, candidate, view. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prospect a common word?

prospect is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.