Added 2 October 2026
see
/siː/ symbol
In Latin: video, specto, specio Wiktionary
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verb
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To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight. To witness or observe by personal experience.
Now I've seen it all!
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To witness or observe by personal experience.
Now I've seen it all!
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To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
I saw the latest Tarantino flick last week.
interjection
noun
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
Origin
From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”). Etymology 1 sense 9 is a calque of Latin vidē (“see (thou)”, 2ⁿᵈ person singular imperative), which was also borrowed into academic English (see vide) as well as Portuguese.
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