see

Meanings

To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
To form a mental picture of.
To meet, to visit.
To be the setting or time of.
To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
To wait upon; attend, escort.
To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
To reference or to study for further details.
To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
To include as one of something's experiences.

a diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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").
Cognate with West Frisian sjen ("to see"), Dutch zien ("to see"), Low German sehn, German sehen ("to see"), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se ("to see"), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå ("to see"), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum ("sign, token"), Albanian shih ("look at, see") imperative of shoh.
From Middle English se, see, from Old French sie ("seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see"), from Latin sedes ("seat"), referring to the bishop's throne or chair (compare seat of power) in the cathedral; related to the Latin verb sedere.

Explore and search massive catalog of over 900,000 word meanings.

Get a curated memorable word every day.

Level up your vocabulary by setting personal goals.

Try out Vedaist now.