"see someone right" meaning in English

See see someone right in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: sees someone right [present, singular, third-person], seeing someone right [participle, present], saw someone right [past], seen someone right [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|see<,,saw,seen> someone right}} see someone right (third-person singular simple present sees someone right, present participle seeing someone right, simple past saw someone right, past participle seen someone right)
  1. (British) to satisfy someone Tags: British
    Sense id: en-see_someone_right-en-verb-nkjub4K8 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for see someone right meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sees someone right",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seeing someone right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saw someone right",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seen someone right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "see<,,saw,seen> someone right"
      },
      "expansion": "see someone right (third-person singular simple present sees someone right, present participle seeing someone right, simple past saw someone right, past participle seen someone right)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Elbow (band), One Day Like This (song)",
          "text": "Throw those curtains wide; one day like this, a year would see me right."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to satisfy someone"
      ],
      "id": "en-see_someone_right-en-verb-nkjub4K8",
      "links": [
        [
          "satisfy",
          "satisfy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) to satisfy someone"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "see someone right"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sees someone right",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seeing someone right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saw someone right",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seen someone right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "see<,,saw,seen> someone right"
      },
      "expansion": "see someone right (third-person singular simple present sees someone right, present participle seeing someone right, simple past saw someone right, past participle seen someone right)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Elbow (band), One Day Like This (song)",
          "text": "Throw those curtains wide; one day like this, a year would see me right."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to satisfy someone"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "satisfy",
          "satisfy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) to satisfy someone"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "see someone right"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.