see

Pronunciation: /siː/

The English word “see” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
To witness or observe by personal experience.
To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
To form a mental picture of, to perceive in a certain way.
To understand.
To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
Used to emphasise a proposition.
To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
To date frequently.
To visit for an appointment, especially a medical appointment.
To be attended to during an appointment, especially a medical appointment.
To be the setting or time of.
Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
To wait upon; attend, escort.
To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
To reference or to study for further details.
To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
To include as one of something's experiences.

Etymology

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)…

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