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# sight

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /saɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 1503

## Meanings
1. The ability to see.
2. Something that you see, or the act of seeing it.
3. An interesting or famous place that people visit.
4. The distance within which you can see something.

## Examples
- He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
- The sight of the ocean always makes me happy.
- We went to London and saw all the sights.
- The ship stayed within sight of land.

## Synonyms
- espy
- glimpse
- see
- spot

## Derived Forms
- backsight
- blindsight
- bombsight
- boresight
- day-sight
- daysight
- desight
- far-sighted
- farsight
- foresight
- gunsight
- hindsight

## Related Forms
- see
- vision

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: siȝht
- Root: siht
- Root: *sihti

## Etymology
From Middle English siȝht, siȝt, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see + -t. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.

## AI Etymology
Sight is from Middle English siȝht, siȝt, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see + -t. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte. Important forms in the word's history include Middle English siȝht, Old English siht, Proto-West Germanic *sihti. In current use it includes senses such as The ability to see and Something that you see, or the act of seeing it.

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- Senses & Perception

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