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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?, IPA^(key): /si?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: C, cee, sea, Seay

Etymology 1

From Middle English seen, from Old English s?on (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwan? (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to see, notice”).

Verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)

1. (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I want to see this house!

   1. To witness or observe by personal experience.

      Hyponyms: experience, suffer
   2. To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.

2. To form a mental picture of.
   1. (figuratively) To understand.
   2. To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.

   3. (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.

   4. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.

3. (social) To meet, to visit.
   1. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
   2. To date frequently.

   3. To visit for a medical appointment.

4. (transitive; ergative) To be the setting or time of.
5. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

6. (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.

7. (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

8. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).

9. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.

10. To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.

11. To include as one of something's experiences.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (perceive with the eyes): behold, descry, espy, observe, view
• (understand): follow, get, understand
• (date frequently): go out; see also Thesaurus:date

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

see

1. Introducing an explanation

   Synonyms: look, well, so

Translations

See also

• look
• sight
• watch

Etymology 2

From Middle English se, see, from Old French sie (“seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see”), from Latin sedes (“seat”), referring to the bishop's throne or chair (compare seat of power) in the cathedral; related to the Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).

Noun

see (plural sees)

1. a diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
2. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
3. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

Related terms

Derived terms

• Holy See

Translations

See also

• cathedra
• cathedral
• chair
• throne

Further reading

• see on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ese, ESE, Ese, ees, ese

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• sé (obsolete)

Etymology

From Dutch zee, from Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch s?o, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Noun

see (plural seë)

1. sea

Derived terms

• seekoei
• seesout
• seevis
• seevoël
• seewater

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *se, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *?e. cognate to Finnish se, Votic se, Erzya ?? (se, “this, that”), Khanty ?? (si, “that over yonder; now, then”), and Nganasan [script needed] (sete, “he, she”).

Pronoun

see (genitive selle, partitive seda)

1. this
2. it
3. (colloquial, somewhat rude) he, she (usually only used when said person is not present)

Declension

See also

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?/, [?s?e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: see

Etymology 1

Compare Swedish ce, English cee, both ultimately from Latin c? with the c sound changed from a /k/ to a /s/ as is a common change in languages using the Latin alphabet.

Alternative forms

• cee

Noun

see

1. cee (The name of the Latin-script letter C.)

Usage notes

• Speakers often use the corresponding forms of c-kirjain ("letter C, letter c") instead of inflecting this word, especially in plural. The plural forms may get confused with sei (“saithe”).

Declension

Synonyms

• c-kirjain

Etymology 2

< seitsemän

Numeral

see

1. (colloquial, counting) seven

See also

• seitsemän (“seven”)

Friulian

Alternative forms

• siee

Etymology

From the verb seâ. Compare Italian sega, Venetian siega, French scie.

Noun

see f (plural seis)

1. saw

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch s?o, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Noun

sêe f or m

1. sea

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: zee f
  • Afrikaans: see
  • ? Sranan Tongo: se
  • ? Saramaccan: zé
• Limburgish: zieë f
• West Flemish: zji m or f, zêe

Further reading

• “see”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “see (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s?

Alternative forms

• se, sæ, ce, sea, sei, ze

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/, /se?/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

see (plural sees)

2. sea, ocean
3. A body of water, a lake

Related terms

• Rede See

Descendants

• English: sea
• Scots: se, see, sey, seye, sie
• Yola: zea

References

• “s?, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

Etymology 2

From Old French sei, from Latin sedes.

Alternative forms

• se, ce, cee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

see (plural sees)

2. seat, chair
3. dwelling, residence
4. A royal or episcopal chair
5. A royal or episcopal polity or realm
6. A royal or episcopal residence
7. (Christianity) The Kingdom of Heaven.

Descendants

• English: see

References

• “s?, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian s?, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi. Cognates include Dutch zee.

Noun

see m (plural seen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) lake

Scots

Alternative forms

• sie, sey, sei

Etymology

From Middle English seen, from Old English s?on, from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan. Cognate with English see.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?si]
• (Coast Scots) IPA^(key): [?s?i?]

Verb

see (third-person singular present sees, present participle seein, past saw, seed, past participle seen)

1. to see

References

Tetum

Verb

see

1. to turn, to present

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian s?, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?/

Noun

see c (plural seeën, diminutive seeke)

1. sea

Derived terms

• seehûn
• seeko
• seerôver

Further reading

• “see”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle French explorer, from Latin expl?r?re (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + pl?r?re (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?ksplô?, IPA^(key): /?k?spl??/
• (General American) enPR: ?ksplôr?, IPA^(key): /?k?spl??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?kspl?r?, IPA^(key): /?k?splo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?k?splo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: ex?plore

Verb

explore (third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
2. (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
3. (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

4. (intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
5. (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.

6. (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

7. (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
8. (transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.

Synonyms

• (examine or investigate systematically): delve into, research

Derived terms

• explorer

Related terms

• exploration
• explorative
• exploratory

Translations

Noun

explore (plural explores)

1. (colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
   • 2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage

     Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.

French

Verb

explore

1. first-person singular present indicative of explorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of explorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of explorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of explorer
5. second-person singular imperative of explorer

Portuguese

Verb

explore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
3. first-person singular imperative of explorar
4. third-person singular imperative of explorar

Spanish

Verb

explore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of explorar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of explorar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of explorar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of explorar.