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eyesight

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈaɪˌsaɪt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: AY1 S AY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Vision or the faculty of sight.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • good eyesight
  • poor eyesight
  • restore eyesight
  • She has excellent eyesight.
  • His eyesight began to fail with age.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

View or the range of vision.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

normal use of the faculty of vision

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: seeing, sightedness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality

History

Etymology

From Middle English eiȝesiht, ieȝesihte, ehsihthe, eihsihthe, eȝhesihthe, equivalent to eye + sight.

Across languages

Translations

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afar: mabla — faculty of sight
  • Afrikaans: sig — faculty of sight
  • Arabic: بَصَر (baṣar) — faculty of sight
  • Arabic: نَظَر (naẓar) — faculty of sight
  • Arabic: نظر (naẓar) — faculty of sight
  • Arabic: نضر (naḍar) — faculty of sight
  • Armenian: տեսողություն (tesoġutʻyun) — faculty of sight
  • Asturian: vista — faculty of sight
  • Asturian: visión — faculty of sight
  • Azerbaijani: görmə — faculty of sight
  • Azerbaijani: göz görməsi — faculty of sight
  • Azerbaijani: görüş — faculty of sight
  • Basque: ikusmen — faculty of sight
  • Belarusian: зрок (zrok) — faculty of sight
  • Bulgarian: зре́ние (zrénie) — faculty of sight
  • Burmese: ရူပါရုံ (ruparum) — faculty of sight
  • Catalan: vista — faculty of sight
  • Catalan: visió — faculty of sight
  • Cherokee: ᎠᎪᏩᏛᏗ (agowadvdi) — faculty of sight
  • Chinese Mandarin: 視力 /视力 (shìlì) — faculty of sight
  • Chinese Mandarin: 視覺 /视觉 (shìjué) — faculty of sight
  • Chinese Mandarin: 眼力 (yǎnlì) — faculty of sight
  • Czech: zrak — faculty of sight
  • Czech: vidění — faculty of sight
  • Danish: syn — faculty of sight
  • Dutch: zicht — faculty of sight
  • Dutch: gezichtsvermogen — faculty of sight
  • Egyptian: U2:D4-A-A (mꜣꜣ) — faculty of sight
  • Esperanto: vido — faculty of sight
  • Estonian: nägemine — faculty of sight
  • Faroese: sjón — faculty of sight
  • Finnish: näkö — faculty of sight
  • Finnish: näkökyky — faculty of sight
  • Finnish: näköaisti — faculty of sight
  • French: vue — faculty of sight
  • French: vision — faculty of sight
  • Old French: veüe — faculty of sight
  • Galician: visión — faculty of sight
  • Galician: vista — faculty of sight
  • Georgian: მხედველობა (mxedveloba) — faculty of sight
  • German: Sehvermögen — faculty of sight
  • German: Sehen — faculty of sight
  • German: Sicht — faculty of sight
  • German: Sehkraft — faculty of sight
  • German: Augenlicht — faculty of sight
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌽𐍃 (siuns) — faculty of sight
  • Greek: όραση (órasi) — faculty of sight
  • Ancient Greek: ὄψις (ópsis) — faculty of sight
  • Ancient Greek: ὅρασις (hórasis) — faculty of sight
  • Haryanvi: त्योर (tyor) — faculty of sight
  • Hebrew: ראייה \ רְאִיָּה (re'iya) — faculty of sight
  • Hindi: दृष्टि (dŕṣṭi) — faculty of sight
  • Hindi: नज़र (nazar) — faculty of sight
  • Hungarian: látás — faculty of sight
  • Ido: vido — faculty of sight
  • Indonesian: penglihatan — faculty of sight
  • Ingrian: näkö — faculty of sight
  • Irish: amharc — faculty of sight
  • Italian: vista — faculty of sight
  • Japanese: 視覚 (shikaku) — faculty of sight
  • Japanese: 視力 (shiryoku) — faculty of sight
  • Kalmyk: харан (xaran) — faculty of sight
  • Kazakh: көз (köz) — faculty of sight
  • Kazakh: көру (köru) — faculty of sight
  • Korean: 시력 (siryeok) — faculty of sight
  • Korean: 시각 (sigak) — faculty of sight
  • Central Kurdish: بینایی (bînayî) — faculty of sight
  • Kyrgyz: көрүү (körüü) — faculty of sight
  • Latgalian: redzeiba — faculty of sight
  • Latin: vīsus — faculty of sight
  • Latin: lux — faculty of sight
  • Latvian: redze — faculty of sight
  • Lithuanian: regėjimas — faculty of sight
  • Lithuanian: rega — faculty of sight
  • Macedonian: вид (vid) — faculty of sight
  • Macedonian: гледање (gledanje) — faculty of sight
  • Malayalam: കാഴ്ച്ച (kāḻcca) — faculty of sight
  • Malayalam: ദൃഷ്ഠി (dr̥ṣṭhi) — faculty of sight
  • Marathi: दृष्टी (dŕṣṭī) — faculty of sight
  • Norman: veue — faculty of sight
  • Norwegian Bokmål: syn — faculty of sight
  • Norwegian Bokmål: synssans — faculty of sight
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: syn — faculty of sight
  • Occitan: vista — faculty of sight
  • Occitan: vision — faculty of sight
  • Persian: بینش (bineš) — faculty of sight
  • Persian: بینایی (binâyi) — faculty of sight
  • Polish: wzrok — faculty of sight
  • Polish: widzenie — faculty of sight
  • Portuguese: visão — faculty of sight
  • Portuguese: vista — faculty of sight
  • Romanian: vedere — faculty of sight
  • Romanian: văz — faculty of sight
  • Russian: зре́ние (zrénije) — faculty of sight
  • Saho: mablo — faculty of sight
  • Sanskrit: दृष्टि (dṛṣṭi) — faculty of sight
  • Scottish Gaelic: fradharc — faculty of sight
  • Scottish Gaelic: lèirsinn — faculty of sight
  • Scottish Gaelic: sealladh — faculty of sight
  • Serbo-Croatian: ви̑д — faculty of sight
  • Serbo-Croatian: vȋd — faculty of sight
  • Shor: кӧс — faculty of sight
  • Slovak: zrak — faculty of sight
  • Slovene: vid — faculty of sight
  • Lower Sorbian: wiźenje — faculty of sight
  • Spanish: visión — faculty of sight
  • Spanish: vista — faculty of sight
  • Spanish: ver — faculty of sight
  • Swahili: taswira — faculty of sight
  • Swedish: syn — faculty of sight
  • Swedish: synförmåga — faculty of sight
  • Tajik: биниш (biniš) — faculty of sight
  • Tamil: பார்வை (pārvai) — faculty of sight
  • Tamil: கண்பார்வை (kaṇpārvai) — faculty of sight
  • Telugu: దృష్టి (dr̥ṣṭi) — faculty of sight
  • Telugu: చూపు (cūpu) — faculty of sight
  • Thai: สายตา (sǎai-dtaa) — faculty of sight
  • Turkish: görüş — faculty of sight
  • Turkish: görme — faculty of sight
  • Turkmen: görüş — faculty of sight
  • Ukrainian: зір (zir) — faculty of sight
  • Urdu: نَظَر (nazar) — faculty of sight
  • Uyghur: كۆرۈش (körüsh) — faculty of sight
  • Uzbek: koʻrish — faculty of sight
  • Vietnamese: thị lực — faculty of sight
  • Vietnamese: sức nhìn — faculty of sight
  • Vietnamese: tầm nhìn — faculty of sight
  • Volapük: logasien — faculty of sight
Real reading context

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