prospekt
/pɹˈɑspɛkt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It is not a fashionable quarter, but it contains wide Prospekts, bordered by good houses, as well as some important public buildings, amongst which are the Exchange and the University."
- "Converging towards the central spire of the Admiralty, are the three prospekts of which mention has been made, their length being reckoned by miles."
- "All the streets are broad. They are classed as prospekts, oulitzi, and perouloks or cross streets, but even the perouloks would be broad streets in most of the older European towns."
- "At No. 17, on the other side of the prospekt, is a building that was once the palace of Count Stroganov."
- "Instead of the smell of disinfectant, a mixture of heavy, acrid cigarette smoke, sour bread, cabbage and sweat hung in the air--that quintessential Soviet smell that you find even in the middle of a prospekt."
- "I arrived at the fag end of winter, in the time of the veritable Bulgakovian black snow — fur-grey, at least, in the parks and under the Kremlin walls; great coal-black lumps in the gutters of the big prospekty."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: проспе́кт