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sight-see

sight-see is the alternative spelling of sightsee.

Meaning of sightsee

Verb

sightsee (third-person singular simple present sightsees, present participle sightseeing, simple past sightsaw, past participle sightseen)

  1. (intransitive) To go sightseeing; to visit places of interest in a city, town or geographical area.
    • The German team liked each other, ate, drank, sightsaw, sunbathed and worked their horses together. All were firmly rooting for Ludwig. A German victory was all that mattered.1985, Jilly Cooper, Riders

Forms of sight-see

third-person singular presentsight-sees
present participlesight-seeing
pastsight-saw
past participlesight-seen

Questions about sight-see

What is sight-see the alternative spelling of?
Sight-see is the alternative spelling of sightsee.

Words near sight-see in the dictionary

  1. sight-reader
  2. sight-readers
  3. sight-reading
  4. sight-reads
  5. sight-saw
  6. sight-see
  7. sight-seeing
  8. sight-seeings
  9. sight-seen
  10. sight-sees
  11. sight-translate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sight-see (page history and authors); sightsee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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