VIEWER

viewer

(noun) an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies

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

viewer (plural viewers)

Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.

Someone who watches television.

Any optical device used to view photographic slides.

(computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.

(mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.

Anagrams

• re-view, review

Source: Wiktionary


View"er, n.

1. One who views or examines.

2. (Law)

Definition: A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.

3. The superintendent of a coal mine. [Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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