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SIGHTSEEING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sightseeing mean?
• SIGHTSEEING (noun)
The noun SIGHTSEEING has 1 sense:
1. going about to look at places of interest
Familiarity information: SIGHTSEEING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Going about to look at places of interest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
rubber-necking; sightseeing
Hypernyms ("sightseeing" is a kind of...):
look; looking; looking at (the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually)
Derivation:
sightsee (visit famous or interesting sights)
Context examples
I was relieved too for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby's grave. I didn't want it to be in the papers and draw a sightseeing crowd so I'd been calling up a few people myself. They were hard to find.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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