Watcher

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Noun

HYPHEN

watch=er

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Watcher has 3 senses

watcher(n = noun.person) looker, spectator, viewer, witness - 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"

is a kind of beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient

has particulars: browser, bystander, cheerer, eyewitness, gawker, motion-picture fan, moviegoer, ogler, looker-on, onlooker, playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, spy, starer, peeper, peeping tom, voyeur

Derived forms verb watch₄, verb watch₁

watcher(n = noun.person) security guard, watchman - a guard who keeps watch; Array

is a member of private security force, security force

has particulars: bank guard, fire watcher, lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch, night watchman, patroller, port watcher, portwatcher

is a kind of guard

Derived form verb watch₅

watcher(n = noun.person) Array - a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body; Array

CIDE DICTIONARY

Watcher, n.

One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

Watcher

Argus, Charley, TV-viewer, airplane spotter, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, drugstore cowboy, eyewitness, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, forward observer, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, goggler, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, lookout, lookout man, night watchman, observer, ogler, onlooker, patrol, patroller, patrolman, perceiver, percipient, picket, roundsman, scout, seer, sentinel, sentry, sidewalk superintendent, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, spotter, televiewer, television-viewer, vedette, video-gazer, viewer, watch, watchkeeper, watchman, witness

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