spectators

Synonyms

spectator public audience observer attendance bystander beholder watcher viewer turnout onlooker

Antonyms

orator blatherskite

Examples

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Film spectators are quiet vampires. Jim Morrison

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. Francois Guizot

It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it. John Calvin

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators. John F. Kennedy

Spectators see better than actors. Persian Proverb