Onlooker - English meaning

noun

A person who sees or observes someone or something.

Usage examples:

The building and landscape can elicit imaginative responses from the beholder

noun

A person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part.

Usage examples:

Water cannons were turned on marchers and innocent bystanders alike

noun

A person who is standing near and watching something that is happening but is not involved in it

Usage examples:

Many innocent bystanders were injured by the explosion.

noun

A person who has seen something happen and can give a first-hand description of it.

Usage examples:

Eyewitness accounts of the london blitz

noun

A person who saw something happen, for example a crime or an accident

Usage examples:

Police were looking for eyewitnesses.

idiom

If you say that you would like to be a fly on the wall on an occasion, you mean that you would like to hear what will be said or see what will happen while not being noticed

Usage examples:

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when those two get home!, a fly-on-the-wall documentary

idiom

If you say that you would like to be a fly on the wall on an occasion, you mean that you would like to hear what will be said or see what will happen while not being noticed

Usage examples:

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when those two get home!, a fly-on-the-wall documentary

noun

Someone who watches something that is happening in a public place but is not involved in it

Usage examples:

At every gathering for dances, sports, or games of any kind there are more lookers-on than particip…

noun

A person who watches or notices something.

Usage examples:

To a casual observer, he was at peace

verb

Turn one's head to stare at something in a foolish manner.

Usage examples:

A passer-by rubbernecking at the accident scene

noun

A person who rubbernecks.

Usage examples:

And as a result, i guess i'm just kind of a rubberneck.

noun

A person who looks at something in a stupid way, especially a driver who drives more slowly to look at an accident

noun

A person who goes sightseeing.

Usage examples:

Hordes of sightseers

noun

Someone who visits interesting places

noun

A person who watches at a show, game, or other event.

Usage examples:

Around fifteen thousand spectators came to watch the thrills and spills

noun

A person who looks at or inspects something.

Usage examples:

The viewer of paintings or sculpture

noun

Someone who watches a particular tv broadcast or series of broadcasts, esp. regularly

Usage examples:

Millions of viewers watch the super bowl on tv every year.

noun

Someone who watches a television programme

Usage examples:

The ads were designed to appeal to viewers of home improvement shows., attract/bring in/draw viewer…

noun

A person who observes something attentively or regularly.

Usage examples:

A badger-watcher

noun

Someone who is interested in the developments and changes of a particular thing

Usage examples:

But the real growth, industry watchers say, will come in the corporate and personal jet sector.

noun

A person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.

Usage examples:

Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident

verb

See (an event, typically a crime or accident) happen.

Usage examples:

Staff who witnessed the murder

noun

A person who sees an event happening, esp. a crime or an accident

Usage examples:

[ c ] according to witnesses, the car used in the robbery was a green van with pennsylvania license…