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单词 sightseer
释义

sightseern.

Etymology: formed as sightseeing n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsight-seer.
One who goes about to see the sights of a place or places.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > sight-seer
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > tourist > sight-seer
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1834 G. Crabbe in Poet. Wks. G. Crabbe I. viii. 207 A friend in town procured us those very eligible rooms for sight-seers, in Osborne's Hotel, Adelphi.
1849 R. Curzon Visits to Monasteries Levant xv. 204 Nothing better or worse than Englishmen and sightseers.
1860 W. M. Thackeray Notes Week's Holiday in Roundabout Papers Humour and grotesqueness, which gives the sight-seer the most singular zest and pleasure.
1884 G. A. Sala Journey due South i. xx The..society-loving patrons of the Roman season are a very different class from the sightseer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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