Sight Meaning and Definition

Word: Sight

How to pronounce: saɪt

Noun

Definitions:

1. The faculty or power of seeing.

Example sentences: "Joseph lost his sight as a baby"

2. A thing that one sees or that can be seen.

Example sentences: "John was a familiar sight in the bar for many years"

3. A device on a gun or optical instrument used for assisting a person's precise aim or observation.

Example sentences: "There were reports of a man on the roof aiming a rifle and looking through its sights"

Verb

Definitions:

1. Manage to see or observe (someone or something); catch an initial glimpse of.

Example sentences: "Tell me when you sight London Bridge"

2. Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun.

Example sentences: "She sighted down the barrel"

Synonyms:

gunsight

rear sight

backsight

spectacle

spectacles

eyeful

tourist attraction

place of interest

vision

stare

gaze

semblance

eye

visual sense

survey

glance

aim

scope

glimpse

eyesight

gun sight

appearance

look

view

see

behold

observe

descry

peek

peep

notice

spot

espy

witness

regard

sense

perceive

Derivations:

sighted

sighting

sightly

sightless

sightlessly

sigh

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Sight in Other Languages...

Spanish: Vista

German: Sehenswürdigkeit

French: Vue

Italian: Vista

Turkish: Görünüm