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Definition: Sightseeing |
SightseeingNoun1. Going about to look at places of interest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sightseeing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references) |
Synonym: SightseeingSynonym: rubber-necking (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sightseeing |
| English words defined with "sightseeing": Gapesing, globe-trot, grand tour. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sightseeing": GUIDE, SIGHTSEEING ♦ RECREATIONAL THERAPIST ♦ spieler ♦ therapeutic recreation worke. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sightseeing" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (sightseeing). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sightseeing (1989) | |
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 | Lakes and mountains on the Kenai Peninsula Some of the scenes on a sightseeing roadtrip. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Sightseeing in Kiger Gorge at Steens Mountain in Southeastern Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | [Five officers from the Women's Medical Specialist Corps sightseeing in Washington, D.C.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sightseeing via camel at the Sphinx, in Egypt, while Ashville was en route to the Far East via the Suez Canal, July 1922. With him are two of the ship's officers, Lieutenant William B. Young, USN(SC) and Lieutenant Roy W. Hayworth, USN(MC). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Canadian scenes. Sightseeing car I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Cityscape" by Joanna Kopik Commentary: "A view over a seaside port and some houses, taken from a sightseeing tower." | "Can you see it now?" by Jim Robinson Commentary: "Coin operated sightseeing binoculars ** if you download, please leave a comment, I would love to know what I'm doing right or wrong. I'm new at this photog thing." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Business | However, it is interesting to note that Italians visit the U.S. for other purposes, such as shopping and sightseeing. (references) | |
The project covers various aspects under which Tour Operators will be required to provide the DTCM with detailed programs of their sightseeing tours. (references) | ||
They can be marketed effectively as weekend breaks or longer holidays, particularly in combination with cultural or sporting activities, theme parks, or city sightseeing. (references) | ||
Discrimination | Belize | These occupations include fishing, souvenir manufacturing, sightseeing tours, accounting, insurance, real estate, and legal services. (references) |
Economic History | Taiwan | While a large percentage of tourists from Taiwan go on sightseeing trips to the U.S. on package tours, the number of independent travelers is growing rapidly. (references) |
Japan | If we consider the expenditure of these students on lodging, food, and sightseeing in addition to tuition, Japan is by far the largest market for the U.S. schools and their local economies. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sightseeing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.47% of the time. "Sightseeing" is used about 136 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 51.47% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 38.97% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.88% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.74% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 136 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sightseeing": do some sightseeing ♦ go sightseeing ♦ sightseeing bus ♦ sightseeing tour. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sightseeing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | uitstappie (excursion, outing, sightseeing trip). (various references) | |
Albanian | vizitë (tour, visit, visitation). (various references) | |
Arabic | سياحة (peregrination, tour, touring), زيارة معالم المدينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разглеждане на забележителности. (various references) | |
Catalan | excursió (excursion, outing, sightseeing trip). (various references) | |
Chinese | 观光 (sightsee, Sight-seeing). (various references) | |
Czech | prohlížení památek. (various references) | |
Danish | sightseeingtur (city tour, sightseeing tour), byrundtur (city tour, sightseeing tour). (various references) | |
Dutch | stadstour (city tour, sightseeing tour), stadsrondrit (city tour, sightseeing tour), uitstapje (excursion, outing, sightseeing trip), trip (excursion, journey, outing, sightseeing trip, trip, voyage), toeristische rondrit (city tour, sightseeing tour), toer (excursion, journey, line, outing, sightseeing trip, subterfuge, trick, trickery, trip, voyage), tocht (excursion, journey, outing, sightseeing trip, trip, voyage), excursie (excursion, outing, sightseeing trip). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ekskurso (excursion, outing, sightseeing trip). (various references) | |
Faeroese | útferð (excursion, outing, picnic, sightseeing trip). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiertoajelu (sightseeing tour), katsella nähtävyyksiä (go sightseeing, see the sights). (various references) | |
French | tourisme, inspection. (various references) | |
German | schaulustig, Besichtigung (inspection, perambulation, review, tour, viewing, visit, visitation). (various references) | |
Greek | να δείς τα αξιοθέατα, περιοδεία εισ αξιοθέατα μέρη, το να δείς τα αξιοθέατα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תיור (tour, touring), בקור (attendance, call, examination, investigation, visit), טיול (excursion, outing, tour, trip), סיור (excursion, expedition, round, tour, visit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tamasya (excursion, outing, picnic). (various references) | |
Irish | fámaireacht. (various references) | |
Italian | ispezione (check, examination, inspection), giro turistico (tour), curioso (agog, curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosey, nosy, peculiar, pry, quaint, queer, rummy, snoopy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遊覧 , 観光 , 観光 , 見物 , 見物 (a sight, an attraction, something worth seeing), 物見 (a scout, keeping watch), 探勝 , サイザル麻 (cider, citation, cytokinin, hand brake, side, side business, side job, side light, side lobe, side pocket, side table, side vents, side walk, side work, sidearm throw, sideboards, sidecar, sideline, side-out, sidestroke, sideview mirror, sisal hemp, site, size, supplementary reader in a foreign language classroom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんしょう (admiration, short and small, winning at the races), かんこう (call to surrender, completion, consider, customary practice, decisive action, encouragement of industry, examination and correction, exposure, gagging, going slowly, habit, hushing up, issue, keeping silent, kindness, largeheartedness, publication, sensitization, traditional event), ゆうらん, サイトシーイング , ものみ (a scout, keeping watch), けんぶつ. (various references) | |
Korean | 관광 (Sight-seeing). (various references) | |
Manx | goll dy akin dy yindyssyn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | utflukt (excursion, outing, sightseeing trip). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightseeingsay.(various references) | |
Polish | wycieczka (excursion, outing, sightseeing trip). (various references) | |
Portuguese | visita aos pontos turísticos de uma cidade. (various references) | |
Romanian | vizitarea monumentelor, turistic (touring), de excursie. (various references) | |
Russian | экскурсионный, осмотр достопримечательностей. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razgledanje znamenitosti, željan razgledanja. (various references) | |
Spanish | turismo (touring, tourism, travel), rese a (inspection), excursionismo (going on trips, walking). (various references) | |
Swedish | sightseeing. (various references) | |
Thai | การเที่ยวชม. (various references) | |
Turkish | gezip görme, gezi (excursion, journey, locomotion, outing, promenade, tour, travel, trip), çevreyi görme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | огляд визначних місць. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đi tham quan cuộc tham quan. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sightseeing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sighseeing, sightseein, sigtseeing, siteseeing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sightseeing" (pronounced sī"tsē"ing) |
| 4 | -s ē" i ng | foreseeing, seeing. |
| 3 | -ē" i ng | agreeing, being, disagreeing, fleeing, freeing, geeing, guaranteeing, keying, skiing, teeing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-h-i-i-n-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: sheetings, sightings, sightseen. | |
-3 letters: egesting, eighties, heisting, insights, nighties, seething, sheeting, shiniest, sienites, sighting, sightsee. | |
-4 letters: genesis, heinies, hessite, hissing, histing, ignites, ingests, insight, nighest, nightie, seeings, seising, sestine, sieging, sienite, sighing, signees, signets, sithens, theines. | |
-5 letters: egests, egises, eights, geeing, geests, genets, genies, gentes, gestes, gieing, gneiss, heinie, heists, hieing, hinges, ignite, ingest. | |
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