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单词 prospekt
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prospektn.

Brit. /ˈprɒspɛkt/, /prɒˈspɛkt/, U.S. /ˈprɑˌspɛk(t)/
Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymon: Russian prospekt.
Etymology: < Russian prospekt (beginning of the 19th cent. or earlier) < classical Latin prōspectus prospect n., perhaps via German Prospekt , †Prospect view (early 17th cent.). Compare slightly later prospect n. 3b.
In Russia: a long, wide street; an avenue or boulevard. Cf. prospect n. 3b.Used chiefly of the great avenues of St Petersburg (and later of Moscow), as Nevsky Prospekt (Russian Nevskij prospekt), etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > wide > in Spain, Russia, Italy
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1836 Southern Literary Messenger July 515/2 If you can imagine such a thing as a street of gin-palaces just after the painting season..you may form an idea scarcely exaggerated of the Nevski Prospekt.
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 427/2 About ten of the other streets of the city [sc. St Petersburg] are distinguished for their grandeur, though none of them equals the Nevski Prospekt.
1919 J. Reed Ten Days that shook World 29 One Sunday we went..to..a Government munitions-plant out on the Schlüsselburg Prospekt.
1966 L. Deighton Billion-dollar Brain xxvi. 274 There were signs of a thaw. All along the Prospekt the huge drainpipes were groaning.
1979 O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 105 Petrograd..was a tedious panorama of featureless white. Sleds slipped noiselessly along the prospekts.
1991 World Monitor Nov. 61/1 Faded, yellow, light-struck, but there it was, pictures of the master in the fields, family scenes in the forest, groups of peasants at work in the courtyard, Tolstoy walking the snowy prospekt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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