Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The aet of seeing sights; a going about for the purpose of seeing interesting things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
- noun The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun going about to look at places of interest
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Examples
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If you believe that taxpayer funded sight-seeing trip was really about "climate change," I've got some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you.
Brian Baird led junket to South Pole on taxpayers' dime (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Many analysts, economists and market participants were concerned that the group was becoming a talk-shop, and that ministers might be doing more figurative sight-seeing in Paris than deal making.
China Agrees to International Scrutiny of Yuan Policy Ian Talley 2011
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Are they repaying us for the girls 'sight-seeing tours?????
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Having only one week in the country, and wanting to allocate the time between sight-seeing and volunteering, La Asociación Nuestros Ahijados was the perfect fit due to the flexible nature of the program you can volunteer for two days, or sign-up for two years, and because they don't charge a fee to participate in the projects, unlike most other volunteer programs.
Maria Russo: Hope Rises at a Malnourished Infant Center in Guatemala Maria Russo 2011
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They both can earn enough money as Attorneys to afford their Daughters for sight-seeing.
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The islands, roughly 29 miles off of Cornwall, are great for sight-seeing pretty coves and inlets.
WATCH: William & Kate's Honeymoon Destination? Kate Auletta 2011
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The islands, roughly 29 miles off of Cornwall, are great for sight-seeing pretty coves and inlets.
WATCH: William & Kate's Honeymoon Destination? Kate Auletta 2011
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The islands, roughly 29 miles off of Cornwall, are great for sight-seeing pretty coves and inlets.
WATCH: William & Kate's Honeymoon Destination? Kate Auletta 2011
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The islands, roughly 29 miles off of Cornwall, are great for sight-seeing pretty coves and inlets.
WATCH: William & Kate's Honeymoon Destination? Kate Auletta 2011
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Having only one week in the country, and wanting to allocate the time between sight-seeing and volunteering, La Asociación Nuestros Ahijados was the perfect fit due to the flexible nature of the program you can volunteer for two days, or sign-up for two years, and because they don't charge a fee to participate in the projects, unlike most other volunteer programs.
Maria Russo: Hope Rises at a Malnourished Infant Center in Guatemala Maria Russo 2011
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