vista
n
1 a view, esp. through a long narrow avenue of trees, buildings, etc., or such a passage or avenue itself; prospect
a vista of arches
2 a comprehensive mental view of a distant time or a lengthy series of events the vista of the future (C17: from Italian: a view, from vedere to see, from Latin videre) ♦
vistaed adj ♦
vistaless adj
Boa Vista (Portuguese)
n a town in N Brazil, capital of the federal territory of Roraima, on the Rio Branco. Pop.: 118928 (1991)
Buena Vista (Spanish)
n a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by U.S. forces (1847)
VISTA
n (in the U.S.)
acronym for Volunteers in Service to America; an organization of volunteers established by the Federal government to assist the poor