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View synonyms for eagle eye

eagle eye

noun

  1. unusually sharp visual powers; keen ability to watch or observe.
  2. a person who has sharp vision or who maintains a keen watchfulness.
  3. alert watchfulness.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eagle eye1

First recorded in 1595–1605
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Idioms and Phrases

Unusually keen sight; also, keen intellectual vision. For example, Antiques dealers have an eagle eye for valuable objects , or A good manager has an eagle eye for employee errors . [Late 1500s]
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Example Sentences

Wall Street Journal: “Begley has a great many strengths—concision, eloquence, an eagle eye—and few of the usual shortcomings.”

The Daily Pic: Frederick Catherwood's eagle eye did without Daguerre's invention.

I suppose "Eagle Eye" will be a winner, but it wasn't cheap either.

When I came to serve the dessert Sally was watching me with her eagle eye and her mouth watering.

When Eagle-eye was coming back from the chase, she saw other trees heavily laden.

Chew-chew talked with Eagle-eye and at length they tried to make friends with the god.

While Pigeon was so small that Eagle-eye had to take her by the hand, her mother took her to the boundaries.

All these pretty things have taken somewhat long to describe, but the eagle eye of Mr. Parsons took them all in at a glance.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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