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spectator
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spectator has 2 senses
- spectator(n = noun.person) looker, viewer, watcher, 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
- spectator(n = noun.artifact) spectator pump - a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel; Array is a kind of pump
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 form verb spectate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
spectator, n. [L. spectator: cf. F. spectateur. See Spectacle.].
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. Shak. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spectator, n. a person who looks on at a show, game, incident, etc.
Idiom
spectator sport a sport attracting spectators rather than participants.
Derivative
spectatorial adj.
Etymology
F spectateur or L spectator f. spectare: see SPECTACLE
THESAURUS
spectator
accepter, acquirer, addressee, aficionado, attender, attestant, attestator, attester, audience, auditor, auditory, beholder, buff, bystander, claqueur, cojuror, compurgator, congregation, consignee, deadhead, deponent, earwitness, eyewitness, fan, frequenter, gallery, gazer, getter, groundling, habitue, haunter, hearer, hired applauder, holder, house, informant, informer, listener, looker, looker-on, moviegoer, newer, observer, obtainer, onlooker, orchestra, pass holder, passerby, patron, payee, perceiver, pit, playgoer, procurer, receiver, recipient, seer, standee, swearer, taker, testifier, theater, theatergoer, trustee, viewer, visitor, voucher, watcher, witnessROGET THESAURUS
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Spectator
N spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on, onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by, sightseer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, spy, sentinel.
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