telescope sight

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   gunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight

   Synonymstelescopic sight

   Broadergunsight

Questions about telescope sight

What does telescope sight mean?

telescope sight means "gunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight".

What is another word for telescope sight?

Close synonyms include telescopic sight. 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 telescope sight a common word?

telescope 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.