• (Received Pronunciation,General American)enPR:sēn,IPA^(key):/siːn/

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  • Homophone:scene
  • Rhymes:-iːn
• (UK dialectal)enPR:sĭn,IPA^(key):/sɪn/
  • Homophone:sin
  • Rhymes:-ɪn

Morphologicallysee +‎-n.

seen

1. pastparticiple ofsee

   Justice must beseen to be done.

2. (nonstandard,dialectal)simplepast ofsee;saw.

   Iseen it with my own eyes.

   • 1918,Norman Lindsay,The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page156:

     "Tut, tut, Sir Benjimen," said Bill, "stir up your memory, sir; cast your eye over them felons in the dock, and tell the Court how youseen them steal the bag."

3. (Jamaica) Understood; comprehended.

   Everything irie,seen?

• unseen

• → Persian:سین(sin)

FromArabicسِين(sīn).

seen (pluralseens)

1. The letterس in theArabic script.

• sene,Sene,snee,eens,esne,Nees

FromMiddle High Germansagen, fromOld High Germansagen.

seen

1. (Issime) tosay

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013)Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

FromProto-Finnic*seeni. Cognate ofFinnishsieni andLatviansēne.

seen (genitiveseene,partitiveseent)

1. mushroom
2. fungus

seen

1. genitivesingular ofsee

• (Ala-Laukaa)IPA^(key):/ˈseːn/,[ˈs̠eːn]
• (Soikkola)IPA^(key):/ˈseːn/,[ˈʃe̝ːn]
• Rhymes:-eːn
• Hyphenation:seen

seen

1. Alternative form ofseeni

seen

1. second-personsingularimperative ofseenen

• sein,sien
• seon,son,suen(chiefly early and West)
• zi(Kent)

FromOld Englishsēon, fromProto-West Germanic*sehwan, fromProto-Germanic*sehwaną.

• (Early Middle English)IPA^(key):/søːn/
• IPA^(key):/seːn/

seen

1. tosee

The conjugation of this verb is highly variable; the forms given below are only a representative selection.

• English:see
• Scots:se,sie,see
• Yola:zee,zie,ze,zey,sau

• “sẹ̄n,v.(1).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

seen

1. pastparticiple ofsee