SIGHTSEE (sightsaw, sightseen)

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Irregular inflected forms: sightsaw    , sightseen   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sightsee mean? 

• SIGHTSEE (verb)
  The verb SIGHTSEE has 1 sense:

1. visit famous or interesting sights

  Familiarity information: SIGHTSEE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGHTSEE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visit famous or interesting sights

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "sightsee" is one way to...):

travel to; visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

sightseeing (going about to look at places of interest)

sightseer (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)

 Context examples 

I was relieved too for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby's grave. I didn't want it to be in the papers and draw a sightseeing crowd so I'd been calling up a few people myself. They were hard to find.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)