Definition of seen

"seen" in the verb sense

1. see

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

"You have to be a good observer to see all the details"

"Can you see the bird in that tree?"

"He is blind

2. understand, realize, realise, see

perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

"Now I see!"

"I just can't see your point"

"Does she realize how important this decision is?"

"I don't understand the idea"

3. witness, find, see

perceive or be contemporaneous with

"We found Republicans winning the offices"

"You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"

"The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"

"I want to see results"

4. visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image

imagine conceive of see in one's mind

"I can't see him on horseback!"

"I can see what will happen"

"I can see a risk in this strategy"

5. see, consider, reckon, view, regard

deem to be

"She views this quite differently from me"

"I consider her to be shallow"

"I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

6. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see

get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

"I learned that she has two grown-up children"

"I see that you have been promoted"

7. watch, view, see, catch, take in

see or watch

"view a show on television"

"This program will be seen all over the world"

"view an exhibition"

"Catch a show on Broadway"

"see a movie"

8. meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see

come together

"I'll probably see you at the meeting"

"How nice to see you again!"

9. determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

"I want to see whether she speaks French"

"See whether it works"

"find out if he speaks Russian"

"Check whether the train leaves on time"

10. see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure

be careful or certain to do something make certain of something

"He verified that the valves were closed"

"See that the curtains are closed"

"control the quality of the product"

11. see

go to see for professional or business reasons

"You should see a lawyer"

"We had to see a psychiatrist"

12. see

go to see for a social visit

"I went to see my friend Mary the other day"

13. visit, see

go to see a place, as for entertainment

"We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning"

14. attend, take care, look, see

take charge of or deal with

"Could you see about lunch?"

"I must attend to this matter"

"She took care of this business"

15. see

receive as a specified guest

"the doctor will see you now"

"The minister doesn't see anybody before noon"

16. go steady, go out, date, see

date regularly have a steady relationship with

"Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"

"He is dating his former wife again!"

17. see

see and understand, have a good eye

"The artist must first learn to see"

18. see

deliberate or decide

"See whether you can come tomorrow"

"let's see

19. see

observe as if with an eye

"The camera saw the burglary and recorded it"

20. examine, see

observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

"The customs agent examined the baggage"

"I must see your passport before you can enter the country"

21. experience, see, go through

undergo or live through a difficult experience

"We had many trials to go through"

"he saw action in Viet Nam"

22. see, escort

accompany or escort

"I'll see you to the door"

23. see

match or meet

"I saw the bet of one of my fellow players"

24. interpret, construe, see

make sense of assign a meaning to

"What message do you see in this letter?"

"How do you interpret his behavior?"

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Quotations for seen

See and to be seen. [ Ben Jonson ]

No one has seen tomorrow. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

We have seen better days. [ Shakespeare ]

Hell is truth seen too late. [ H. G. Adams ]

Stars are not seen by sunshine. [ Proverb ]

In an enemy, spots are soon seen. [ Proverb ]

The actual well seen is the ideal. [ Carlyle ]

In beauty, faults conspicuous grow;
The smallest speck is seen on snow. [ Gay ]

Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Sin is sin whether it be seen or no. [ Proverb ]

A maid oft seen, and a gown oft worn,
Are disesteemed, and held in scorn. [ Proverb ]

I have seen an end of all perfection. [ Bible ]

I have seen corruption boil and bubble
'Till it overrun the stew. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene
And silent waters heaven is seen. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

Maidens should be seen, and not heard. [ Proverb ]

Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Envy is ashamed and afraid to be seen. [ Proverb ]

Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower;
A watery ray an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between. [ Scott ]

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters - and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown. [ Hood ]

A spot is most seen on the finest cloth. [ Proverb ]

Under your good correction, I have seen.
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented over his doom. [ William Shakespeare ]

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,
Needs only to be seen to be admired. [ Cowper ]

Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen. [ Proverb ]

Years have not seen, Time shall not see,
The hour that tears my soul from thee. [ Byron ]

The body charms because the soul is seen. [ Young ]

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. [ Alexander Pope ]

True happiness resides in things not seen. [ Young ]

Things seen are mightier than things heard. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes. [ Carlyle ]

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Where death's approach is seen so terrible! [ William Shakespeare ]

My, crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen : my crown is call'd content;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. [ Shakespeare ]

Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. [ Cowper ]

Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen. [ William Shakespeare ]

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. [ Lavater ]

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [ Bovee ]

Gradual sinks the breeze,
Into a perfect calm; that not a breath
I heard to quiver thro' the closing woods,
Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves,
Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffused?
In glassy breadth, seen through delusive lapse
Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all.
And pleasing expectation. [ Thomson ]

Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress;
And, as the evening twilight fades away.
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. [ Longfellow ]

My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen. [ Cervantes ]

Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen. [ Proverb ]

None are rash when they are not seen by anybody. [ Stanislaus ]

The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light. [ Proverb ]

The helmed Cherubim,
And sworded Seraphim,
Are seen in glittering ranks with wings displayed. [ Milton ]

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

One writes well only of what he has seen or suffered. [ De Goncourt ]

The anger is not warrantable that hath seen two suns. [ Proverb ]

We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard. [ St. Peter and St. John ]

Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often seen together. [ Proverb ]

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame
Crimson the cheek at mention of a name?
The rapturous touch of some divine surprise
Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes:
When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed,
And the heart's secret was at once confessed? [ Abraham Coles ]

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. [ William Shakespeare ]

A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. [ Danish Proverb ]

Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Virtue is despised, if it be seen in a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. [ Jesus ]

Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great. [ Proverb ]

He shone with the greater splendour because he was not seen. [ Tac ]

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation! [ Montaigne ]

Wit and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together. [ Proverb ]

The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. [ Proverb ]

He that gives to be seen would never relieve a man in the dark. [ Proverb ]

O solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? [ Cowper ]

He has seen a wolf. (Proverb of one who suddenly curbs his tongue.) [ ? ]

Well! sage Evhemere, what have you seen in all your travels? Follies! [ Voltaire ]

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. [ Emerson ]

Character is moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature. [ Emerson ]

Like the last beam of evening thrown on a white cloud, just seen and gone. [ Walter Scott ]

Death once seen at our hearth, leaves a shadow which abides there forever. [ Lady Willoughby ]

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [ Bible ]

Do you fear to trust the word of a man whose honesty you have seen in business? [ Terence ]

I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds. [ D'Houdetot ]

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. [ Plutarch ]

A man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman he could love. [ La Bruyere ]

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done. [ George MacDonald ]

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]

True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants and that wisdom guides. [ Addison ]

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it [ Carlyle ]

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [ Ovid ]

Do what good thou canst unknown; and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. [ William Penn ]

He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen? [ St. John ]

The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [ Metastasio ]

The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus - seen plainest when all around is dark. [ Crowell ]

Before promising a woman to love only her, one should have seen them all, or should see only her. [ A. Dupuy ]

But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light. Shone like the moon in water seen by night. [ William Shakespeare ]

A circumnavigator of the globe is less influenced by all the nations he has seen than by his nurse. [ Jean Paul ]

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. [ Dr. Johnson ]

I scarcely exceed the middle age of man; yet between infancy and maturity I have seen ten revolutions! [ Lamartine ]

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. [ Bovee ]

Sin seen from the thought is a diminution or loss; seen from the conscience or will, it is a pravity or bad. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. [ Richard Alleine ]

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one: society does not exist on moral ideas only. [ Balzac ]

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. [ Thoreau ]

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I have seen young ladies of twenty-five affecting a childish ingenuousness which has made me doubt their virtue.

War, with all its evils, is better than a peace in which there is nothing to be seen but usurpation and injustice. [ Pitt ]

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as often trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. [ Goldsmith ]

There is nothing in the world that remains unchanged. All things are in perpetual flux, and every shadow is seen to move. [ Ovid ]

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go, with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been. [ Spenser ]

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. [ Wilkins ]

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions, a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. [ Horace ]

Gradual as the snow, at heaven's breath, melts off and shows the azure flowers beneath, her lids unclosed, and the bright eyes were seen. [ Moore ]

A woman who has not seen her lover for the whole day considers that day lost for her: the tenderest of men considers it only lost for love. [ Mme. de Salm ]

That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]

Nor is it enough to have once seen him; they are delighted to linger near him, and to keep step with him, and to learn the reason of his coming. [ Virgil ]

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]

I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. [ George Eliot ]

No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. [ John Ruskin ]

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it. [ Colton ]

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Reputation is rarely proportioned, to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit, they had not yet attained or for that they no longer possessed. [ St. Evremond ]

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Ay Sir! And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. [ William Shakespeare ]

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. [ John Ruskin ]

Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there! [ Richter ]

One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met with to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind. [ Montaigne ]

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? [ Thackeray ]

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest high catch, and he never walked off the field. [ Yogi Berra ]

Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of today. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely to amuse his contemporaries. [ P. G. Hamerton ]

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]

A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]

The common cause of waves is the friction of the wind upon the surface of the water; little ridges or elevations first appear, which by continuance of the force gradually increase until they become the rolling mountains seen where the wind sweeps over a great extent of water. [ F. Marryatt ]

The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]

The education which has, however, made me a writer has been a living one. I have not only read much, I have seen much, and enjoyed much, and, above all, I have sorrowed much. God has put into my hands every cup of life, sweet and bitter, and the bitter has often become sweet, and the sweet bitter. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]

If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. [ Burke ]

A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

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Longer words containing seen

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