Other forms: eyes, eyed
Your eye is the organ you see with. Blue eyes, close your eyes, something in my eye.
It is also the small hole in a needle, the calm centre of a hurricane, and the sprouting point on a potato. The idioms fill pages: keep an eye on, see eye to eye, turn a blind eye, in the public eye, an eye for detail, and more than meets the eye. Note eyewitness, eyesight, eyesore; and that eye is one of the shortest words in English with one of the longest entries in any dictionary.
1nouneyeThe organ you see with.~98%
“He closed one eye and looked through the small hole in the fence.”
2nounholeA hole or calm centre resembling an eye.~2%
“The eye of the storm passed straight over the island.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 13 sentences found in the wild and placed 12 of them on a sense (1 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
eye is an organ or opening.
Old English eage descends from a Proto-Indo-European root that also gives Latin oculus and Greek ophthalmos. Ocular, monocle, inoculate and ophthalmology are all the same eye in borrowed clothing.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃ekʷ-
Middle English
eye
English, today
eye
Built from
From Middle English eye. From Middle English e, eye, eyghe, eyȝe, eȝhe, iȝe, ye, yhe, from Old English ēage, ēge (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic augā, from Proto-Germanic augô (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Related to ogle. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA