Dictionary

eyeshot en · NOUN

Etymology

From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot.

Meanings

1. (idiomatic, uncountable, usually) A range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.
   • He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. " 1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader:
   • "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. " 2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader:
   • Human waste, collected in “honey buckets” that many residents use for toilets, is often dumped within eyeshot in a village where no point is more than a five-minute walk from any other. 2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times:
2. (uncountable, usually) A range.
3. (archaic, uncountable, usually) A brief glance.
   • The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror. 1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101:

Forms

Coordinates

earshot · tongueshot · noseshot

Translations (2)

bg зрително поле (range of vision) · ru по́ле зре́ния (range of vision)