SPECTATOR

spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker

(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); “the spectators applauded the performance”; “television viewers”; “sky watchers discovered a new star”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

spectator (plural spectators)

One who watches an event; especially, one held outdoors.

Synonyms

• audience

• observer

• crowd

Anagrams

• attercops, catopters

Source: Wiktionary


Spec*ta"tor, n. Etym: [L. spectator: cf. F. spectateur. See Spectacle.]

Definition: One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak.

Syn.

– Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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