English dictionary
sight
nounPronunciation
saɪt
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
noun
- the range of vision
noun
- the ability to see; the visual faculty
noun
- an instance of visual perception
noun
- a range of mental vision
noun
- a place of interest, especially to visitors
noun
- anything that is seen
noun
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
verb
- take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
Example sentences
he tried to get a better view of it
his survey of the battlefield was limited
out of sight of land
the sight of his wife brought him back to reality
the train was an unexpected sight
in his sight, she could do no wrong
{'source': 'https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/sight', 'text': 'we spent a week in Rome looking at all the sights'}
he was a familiar sight on the television
they went to Paris to see the sights
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
he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge