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Definition of sights

noun:

• an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument.
• an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality", "the train was an unexpected sight". Synonyms: sight.
• anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television", "they went to Paris to see the sights". Synonyms: sight.
• the ability to see; the visual faculty. Synonyms: sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense.
• a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong". Synonyms: sight.
• the range of vision; "out of sight of land". Synonyms: ken, sight.
• the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it", "his survey of the battlefield was limited". Synonyms: sight, survey, view.
• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters", "a deal of trouble", "a lot of money", "he made a mint on the stock market", "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos", "it must have cost plenty", "a slew of journalists", "a wad of money". Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.

verb:

• catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge". Synonyms: sight, spy.
• take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device). Synonyms: sight.

Related words

acuity, bombsight, deluge, descry, detect, discover, espy, eyeful, eyesight, find, flood, gunsight, haymow, inundation, notice, observe, seeing, sightedness, spectacle, spot, spy, stigmatism, torrent, trichromacy.

Words nearby

sight, tights.

Rhymes with

heights, tights.