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sight⋅see⋅ing

[sahyt-see-ing]
–noun
1. the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
–adjective
2. seeing, showing, or used for visiting sights: a sightseeing bus.

Origin:
1840–50; sight + seeing

sight⋅see

[sahyt-see]
–verb (used without object)
1. to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
–verb (used with object)
2. to go about seeing the major sights of: We had only two days to sightsee Rome.

Origin:
1825–35; back formation from sightseer or sightseeing


sightseer, noun
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