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sight meaning and definition
Definition and meaning of sight at MeaningMonkey.org. sight meaning and definition in the English Dictionary.SIGHT noun
Definition of sight (noun)
- an instance of visual perception
- "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
- anything that is seen
- "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
- the ability to see; the visual faculty
- synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense
- a range of mental vision
- "in his sight she could do no wrong"
- the range of vision
- "out of sight of land"
- synonyms: ken
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
- synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
SIGHT verb
Definition of sight (verb)
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
- synonyms: spy
- take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
Source: Princeton University Wordnet