vista

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the visual representation of a region

   The vista at the summit is breathtaking.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

   A vista of pleasure to come.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

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.

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