"sightsee" meaning in English

See sightsee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: sightsees [present, singular, third-person], sightseeing [participle, present], sightsaw [past], sightseen [participle, past]
Etymology: Back-formation from sightseeing. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|sightseeing}} Back-formation from sightseeing Head templates: {{en-verb|sightsees|sightseeing|sightsaw|sightseen}} 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. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: sight-see Translations (go sightseeing): 觀光 (Chinese Mandarin), 观光 (guānguāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 遊覽 (Chinese Mandarin), 游览 (yóulǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), katsella nähtävyyksiä (Finnish), 見物する (kenbutsu suru) (alt: けんぶつする) (Japanese), 구경하다 (gugyeonghada) (Korean), കാഴ്ച്ചകൾ കാണുക (kāḻccakaḷ kāṇuka) (Malayalam), zwiedzać (Polish), осма́тривать достопримеча́тельности (osmátrivatʹ dostoprimečátelʹnosti) [imperfective] (Russian), ogledovati si [imperfective] (Slovene), ogledati si [perfective] (Slovene), visitar los lugares de interés (Spanish), turismo (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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