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sightseen

sightseen is the past participle 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

Questions about sightseen

What is sightseen the past participle of?
Sightseen is the past participle of sightsee.

Words near sightseen in the dictionary

  1. sightscreen
  2. sightscreens
  3. sightsee
  4. sightseeing
  5. sightseeings
  6. sightseen
  7. sightseer
  8. sightseers
  9. sightsees
  10. sightsman
  11. sightsmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sightseen (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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