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see
CEFRA1
/ˈsiː/
verb
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To notice or understand something with your eyes or mind.
- 02
verb
To meet or visit someone.
Examples
It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.
She looked for him but couldn't see him in the crowd.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
To witness or observe by personal experience.
To form a mental picture of, to perceive in a certain way.
More examples
In contextThere's a problem there that you don't see.
I'm seeing much better since I got my eyeglasses recalibrated.
To see us, you'd think we've been married for years, but actually just met a few months ago.
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Origin
verb
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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots see, sei (“to see”), Yola sau, ze, zee, zey, zie (“to see”), North Frisian se, si, siin, siine, siinj, sä, säie (“to see”), Saterland Frisian sjo (“to see”), West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Bavarian segn (“to see”), Central Franconian sehn, senn (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn (“to see; to look”), German sehen (“to see”), Limburgish séëne, zeen (“to see”), Luxembourgish gesinn (“to see”), Alemannic Germa...