spectator

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

observer witness audience beholder watcher viewer looker-on looker crowd fan bystander onlooker spectator pump shakespearean layman
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Antonyms

acrobat jay barker showman prater party
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Hypernyms

pump observer beholder perceiver percipient

Hyponyms

peeping tom browser spy eyewitness bystander gawker

Phrases with the word

idle spectator spectator shoe disinterested spectator neutral spectator spectator ligand interested spectator

Examples

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Jean Cocteau

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. Kenneth Clark

A good spectator also creates. Swiss Proverb

A spectator sees more than a player in the heat of a game. Chinese Proverb

The ox's part in milking-time. (I.e. the role of an idle spectator.) Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

spectant spectate spectation spectator chair spectator ion spectator ligand