Usually means: Notice or catch sight of.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word espy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. espy: Merriam-Webster
  2. espy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. espy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. espy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. espy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Espy, espy: Wordnik
  7. espy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Espy, espy: Wiktionary
  9. espy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. espy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. espy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Espy: Dictionary.com
  13. ESPY (film), ESPY, Espy, The Espy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Espy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. espy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. espy: Rhymezone
  17. Espy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. espy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. espy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. espy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. espy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. espy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Espy (disambiguation), espy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. espy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ESPY: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ESPY: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See espied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To find out or observe (someone or something, especially if not easy to see) by spying or looking; to catch sight of; to see; to spot.
verb:  To see (someone or something) without foreplanning or unexpectedly.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To observe (someone or something) as a spy; also, to examine or observe (someone or something) carefully; or to look out or watch for.
verb:  To become aware of (a fact, information, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To observe as a spy, to spy; also, to examine or observe carefully; or to look out or watch.
noun:  (countable)
noun:  An act of finding out or observing by spying or looking; an espial or espying.
noun:  A scout or spy.
noun:  (uncountable) The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means; espionage.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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