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SIGHTSEEING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sightseeing mean? 

SIGHTSEEING (noun)
  The noun SIGHTSEEING has 1 sense:

1. going about to look at places of interestplay

  Familiarity information: SIGHTSEEING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SIGHTSEEING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Going about to look at places of interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rubber-necking; sightseeing

Hypernyms ("sightseeing" is a kind of...):

look; looking; looking at (the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually)

Derivation:

sightsee (visit famous or interesting sights)


 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)



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