gun-sight

1. 1.

   a sight used for aiming a gun

   Synonymsgunsight

   Broadersights

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   Part ofgun

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Questions about gun-sight

What does gun-sight mean?

gun-sight means "a sight used for aiming a gun".

How many syllables are in gun-sight?

gun-sight has 2 syllables and divides as gun--sight under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gun-sight?

Close synonyms include gunsight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gun-sight a common word?

gun-sight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.