to sightsee
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3.1
- verb
- /ˈsaɪtˌsi/
:
hacer turismo
- That morning, Laura and I woke up at the hotel together, but she and her family had plans to sightsee, so I was on my own.
- go there to sightsee
- place to sightsee
- sightsee and relax
He reminisces about when they, you know, went sightseeing together.
- He reminisces about when they, you know, went sightseeing together.
- I don't ever want to go sightsee ever.
Examples
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- We're not here to sightsee.
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Angel Linda and I love to travel to visit friends and relatives, to sightsee, to cruise, or to do genealogy.
Blog text (5) -
It's so fun to just like sightsee and yeah, for real.
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Just the beginning, and then we'll sightsee, or whatever.
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No time to sightsee now, though.
Fiction book (1996) -
All we did was eat, sightsee, nap, and what more could I ask for?
Blog text (23) -
And rather than a flight back to Nevada, we can take our time returning, enjoy the drive, and sightsee a little along the way.
Blog text (23) -
If you want to sightsee and see a new city, go early in the morning and go for a run or a bike or a long walk.
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I love that my teacher decided to take us out of the classroom and into a setting where we could sightsee around the city, but also learn the rich history behind it.
Blog text (34) -
During our vacation, we decided to sightsee at all the historical landmarks in the city.
Synonyms
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1.0
To visit a place or event to look at its sights
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1.0
To go to see a person or place, usually for a short time
Act as if you are visiting a place for fun and look around
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sightsee comes from joining sight ('a thing you can see') and see ('to look'), so it literally means 'to see the sights' and therefore to visit famous or interesting places as a tourist.