sightseev.
1. intransitive. To see sights, visit objects or places of interest.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel as a tourist > sight-see
to see, or show, the lions1590
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > sight-see
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1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 8 Sept. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xii. 302 I had been sight-seeing from five till nearly ten o'clock.
1835 Court Mag. 6 146 The ruins of Tintern,..Alas! now profaned by a sight-seeing crew.
1843 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 345 She sight-sees from the dawn of day.
1887 World 23 Feb. 15 Who..sight-see all day, and return to their gilded cars to dine and sleep.
1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country xxx. 412 ‘I suppose you've been to that old church over there?’.. ‘Oh, of course; when I used to sightsee. Have you never been to Paris before?’
1925 C. Connolly Let. 28 Feb. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 61 Nor is there anywhere near to tempt one to sightsee.
1976 Church Times 30 July 7/3 It seems to me infinitely more absurd—if art and architecture mean anything to you at all, and if you can sight-see in reasonably unhurried and uncongested comfort—not to want to see the best in this line that civilisation has to offer.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion ii. v. 168 ‘And then I thought I'd just sightsee.’ Dutifully she told him everything she had seen.
2. transitive. To visit the principal sights of (a place).
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > see the sights of
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > sight-see
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1968 J. Wainwright Web of Silence 109 I spent the day sight-seeing Berlin.
1976 New Yorker 29 Mar. 95/2 (advt.) Meet the chefs, inspect kitchens, plus sightsee the highlights from Cortina to Rome.
1977 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 June 25/3 Macao is only 2½ miles long. Has 300,000 people. You sightsee it in an hour.
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