eyewitness

Speech parts

1. eyewitness - Noun

2. eyewitness - Verb

Meaning

One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spectator looker seer audience proof observer witness indicator signatory signer bystander beholder watcher gawker passer-by

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Antonyms

local party member actress aspirant entry

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Hypernyms

spectator looker witness watcher viewer

Phrases with the word

independent eyewitness eyewitness accounts eyewitness account interested eyewitness

Examples

One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over. Plautus

The problem is clear: the unreliability of eyewitness identification evidence poses one of the most serious problems in the administration of criminal justice and civil litigation. Elizabeth Loftus

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. Jean Shepherd

One eyewitness could be better than ten hearsays. American Proverb

He lied like an eyewitness. Russian Proverb

The testimony of one eyewitness is worth more than the hearsay of a hundred. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

eyewear eyewink eyewinker eyewitness account eyewitness accounts eyeworm