Noun: sight
| Singular | sight |
| Plural | sights |
Sample Sentences
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He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
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Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle. [c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
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O loſs of ſight, of thee I moſt complain! [1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 12, line 67:]
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to gain sight of land
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And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:9:]
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He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […] [2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 236d:]
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We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
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You really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!
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And Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:3:]
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They never saw a sight so fair. [1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:]
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the sight of a quadrant
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their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel [c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
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a sight of money
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This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!
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"If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad."
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"Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!" [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:]
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Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually, [c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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In their sight it was harmless.
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a very heinous Sin in the Sight of God [1720, William Wake, Principles of the Christian Religion in a Commentary on the Church Catechism:]
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That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:15:]
Nouns inflected like sight
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Cimbrian gazicht (“sight, vision; pupil”), Dutch gezicht (“face; sight, vision”), zicht (“sight, vision”), German Gesicht (“face; sight, vision”), Sicht (“view; sight; visibility”), Luxembourgish Gesiicht (“face”), Siicht (“view; sight”), Yiddish געזיכט (gezikht, “face”), Danish sigt (“sight; visibility”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sikt (“visibility”), Swedish sikt (“visibility”), sikte (“sight”). See: Middle English Nouns '
sighte', Dutch Nouns '
gezicht', German Nouns '
Gesicht', Danish Nouns '
sigt', Swedish Nouns '
sikt'.
Verbs referencing "sight"
German Nouns
Sicht, Danish Nouns
sigt.