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viewer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun viewer has 2 senses
- viewer(n = noun.person) looker, spectator, 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
- viewer(n = noun.artifact) Array - an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies; Array is a kind of optical device
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 view3
Derived form verb view2
CIDE DICTIONARY
viewer, n.
- One who views or examines. [1913 Webster]
- A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same. [1913 Webster]
- The superintendent of a coal mine. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
viewer, n.
1 a person who views.
2 a person watching television.
3 a device for looking at film transparencies etc.
1 a person who views.
2 a person watching television.
3 a device for looking at film transparencies etc.
THESAURUS
viewer
TV-viewer, accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, consignee, drugstore cowboy, eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, getter, girl-watcher, goggler, hearer, holder, kibitzer, listener, looker, looker-on, observer, obtainer, ogler, onlooker, payee, perceiver, percipient, procurer, receiver, recipient, seer, sidewalk superintendent, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, taker, televiewer, television-viewer, trustee, video-gazer, watcher, witness
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