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watcher
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
- watcher(n = noun.person) security guard, watchman - a guard who keeps watch; Array is a member of private security force, security force
- watcher(n = noun.person) Array - a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
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
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
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]
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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