see
Meanings
- 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 understand.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- Used to emphasise a proposition.
- To meet, to visit.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- To date frequently.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- Introducing an explanation
- 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.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- Alternative letter-case form of see.
- A surname.
- An English surname.
- A surname from German.
- A surname from Hokkien.
- Initialism of single-event effect (a temporary or permanent fault caused by an ionizing radiation particle or ray striking a computer chip).
- Initialism of Signed Exact English.
Pronunciation
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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”). 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, sehn (“to see”), Limburgish séëne, zeen (“to see”), Luxembourgish gesinn (“to see”), Alemannic German gseh (“to see”), Mòcheno sechen (“to see”), Vilamovian zaon (“to see”), Yiddish זען (zen, “to see”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish se (“to see”), Elfdalian sją̊ (“to see”), Faroese síggja (“to see”), Icelandic sjá (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), sia (“to foretell”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽 (saiƕan, “to see”), and more distantly with Albanian shof, shoh (“to see”), Latin secūtus, sequūtus (“followed”), Ancient Greek ἕπομαι (hépomai, “to follow, obey”), Persian ا (a), از (az), ز (ze, “from, of”), Luwian 𒁕𒀀𒌋𒄿𒅖 (“eye”), Sanskrit सच् (sac, “to be associated with, familiar with, have to do with”).