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verbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//sɪn//
  • //siːn//

Understood; comprehended.

verb

  1. 1

    Understood; comprehended.

    Everything irie, seen?

  2. 2

    Also a form of seepast participle of see

    Justice must be seen to be done.

  3. 3

    Also a form of seesimple past of see; saw.

    I seen it with my own eyes.

    "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 you seen them steal the bag."

Etymology

Morphologically see + -n.

noun

  1. 1

    The letter س in the Arabic script.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِين (sīn).

Forms

plural
seens
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).