Prospect(Noun) – an extensive view

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“But he was disappointed that on his route the city offered no dramatic prospect of itself, not even when he detoured up Mount Prospect in Mount Prospect Park. ‘It really should be called Ex-Prospect Park,’ he grumbled.”

I new prospect in the other meaning, as in what a prospector does when he looks for minerals in a mine. I had assumed it was the same, but when I used my preconceived meaning, it didn’t fit the context. So I looked it up, and now I know prospect can also mean an extensive view. Meaning the man in the text felt that Prospect park should be renamed “Ex-Prospect Park” because of the lack of extensive view.