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behold

verb
/bɪˈhəʊld/UK/bɪˈhoʊld/CA

Etymology

From Middle English biholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, possess, preserve, belong, keep, observe, look at, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- + hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).

  1. inherited from *bihaldan✻
  2. inherited from behealdan
  3. inherited from biholden

Definitions

  1. To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively

    To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

  2. To contemplate (someone or something).

  3. To look.

    • Lo and behold.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. look, a call of attention to something

    2. lo!

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Derived

beholdable, beholder, eye of the beholder, lo and behold, long and behold, sight to behold, unbeheld

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA