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  • Seeing Eye dog
    Seeing Eye dog
    noun
    a dog that has been specially trained to assist a blind or visually impaired person.
  • seeing-eye dog
    seeing-eye dog
    noun
    the US name for guide dog

Seeing Eye dog

American  
[see-ing ahy dawg, dog] / ˈsi ɪŋ ˈaɪ ˌdɔg, ˌdɒg /

noun

  1. a dog that has been specially trained to assist a blind or visually impaired person.


seeing-eye dog British  

noun

  1. the US name for guide dog

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Seeing Eye dog

First recorded in 1925–30; from Seeing Eye, a trademark of The Seeing Eye, Inc.


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One of the lost animals featured on Angelo’s boxes was Ondrea, a puppy training to be a Seeing Eye dog.

From Fox News ● Jul. 18, 2019

Even in the background, walking past, you didn’t see anyone signing or with a Seeing Eye dog or a wheelchair.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2018

A few years ago, Dominguez was driving a northbound A train into the 125th Street station when he saw a blind man and his Seeing Eye dog sprawled on the tracks.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018

But Mr. Bannon has served as a kind of Seeing Eye dog for the president.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017

The guy was sitting there with a Seeing Eye dog and a white cane.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

Guevara, a writer who is blind, once had a seeing-eye dog that would navigate around the ankle-deep puddles and lingering muck.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2022

Christine Bray said getting Pearl was a reaction to people who saw the video and criticized the couple, telling them Opal needed a seeing-eye dog.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2019

Farhan, who now identifies as a transgender woman, hopes to obtain a seeing-eye dog to help with her visual impairment, the newspaper reported, citing parole documents.

From Fox News ● Mar. 14, 2019

Police said the vehicle turned onto the avenue and accidentally struck the 65-year-old who had been walking with his seeing-eye dog near his Upper East Side home.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2017

He sat on a stool under the awning of the A&P supermarket on the corner of Moore Avenue, his seeing-eye dog lying down in front of him on a blanket.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

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