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VISTAS

Definition: VISTAS

VISTAS

Plural

1. Of Vista

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VISTAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

 

Crosswords: VISTAS

English words defined with "VISTAS": unkempt. (references)
Etymologies containing "VISTAS": Vista. (references)
Non-English Usage: "VISTAS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (sights), Swedish (abide, dwell, house, live, reside, resides, sojourn, stay).

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Modern Usage: VISTAS

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Vistas do Norte (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: VISTAS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Open Vistas (reference)

  • Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research (reference)

  • The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings (reference)

  • Voces Y Vistas (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: VISTAS

Photos:
VISTAS

More images...

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Use in Literature: VISTAS

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: VISTAS

"VISTAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VISTAS" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%10132,488

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: VISTAS

Expression using "VISTAS": new vistas. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VISTAS

Language Translations for "VISTAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

horizonte të reja (new vistas). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏صور ذهنية عديدة. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

远景 (Prospect). (various references)

   

French

  

image (vision). (various references)

   

German

  

Durchblicke, Blicke (bleak). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

új távlatok (new vistas). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

istasvay

   

Russian 

  

широкие перспективы (new vistas). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

novi vidici (new vistas). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nuevas perspectivas (new vistas). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeni olasılıklar (new vistas). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: VISTAS

Misspellings

"VISTAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aisatsu, distazo, vaitsos, vastaa, Vespas, vestan, vestas, vestis, vicsta, Vietas, vintas, visate, visita, vistad, vistal, vistar, vistasp, Vistec, vitac, vitaes, Vostok, Vystar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "VISTAS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "VISTAS" (pronounced vi"stuz)
4-s t u zpastas.
3-t u zbetas, cheetahs, Fajitas, operettas, pesetas, quotas, regattas, sonatas, Stratas.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: VISTAS

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-s-s-t-v"

-1 letter: satis, vasts, visas, vista.

-2 letters: aits, sati, sits, tass, tavs, vast, vats, visa, vita.

-3 letters: ais, ait, ass, its, sat, sis, sit, tas, tav, tis, vas, vat, via, vis.

-4 letters: ai, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-s-s-t-v"
 

+2 letters: atavisms, atavists, distaves, fauvists, mitsvahs, savviest, statives, vastiest.

 

+3 letters: activisms, activists, assertive, aviarists, estivates, festivals, lavishest, nativisms, nativists, passivate, passivist, passivity, salivates, savoriest, sedatives, stravaigs, suavities, tipstaves, travoises, varistors, varsities, vastities, vesicants, vesicates, virtuosas, visitants, vitalises, vitalisms, vitalists, vocalists, voltaisms, votarists.

 

+4 letters: activeness, advertises, aestivates, archivists, arrivistes, assaultive, assumptive, causatives, flavorists, gravitases, invertases, nativeness, passivated, passivates, passivists, pikestaves, privatises, privatisms, salivators, salvations, savouriest, shavetails, solvations, sovranties, sylvanites, timesavers, tovarishes, travesties, vanaspatis, vasculitis, vasotocins, vasotomies, vastitudes, verbalists, vestiaries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VISTAS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 49 53 54 41 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ..    ...    -    .-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 0053 0054 0041 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

564353543553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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