witness
1. someone who sees an event and reports what happened (Freq. 7)
• Syn:
witnesser, informant
• Derivationally related forms:
inform (for: informant), witness (for: witnesser)
• Hypernyms:
perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder, speaker,
talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
• Hyponyms:
attester, attestant, testifier, deponent, deposer
2. a close observer;
someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) (Freq. 3)
- the spectators applauded the performance
- television viewers
- sky watchers discovered a new star
• Syn:
spectator, viewer, watcher, looker
• Derivationally related forms:
look (for: looker), watch (for: watcher), view (for: viewer), spectate (for: spectator)
• Hypernyms:
perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
• Hyponyms:
browser, bystander, cheerer, eyewitness, gawker,
moviegoer, motion-picture fan, ogler, onlooker, looker-on, playgoer,
theatergoer, theatregoer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, spy, starer,
voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper
3. testimony by word or deed to your religious faith (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
testimony
• Hyponyms:
shahadah
4. (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
attestant, attestor, attestator
• Derivationally related forms:
attest (for: attestant)
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
signer, signatory
5. (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
• Hyponyms:
adverse witness, hostile witness, character witness, expert witness, lay witness, material witness
1. be a witness to (Freq. 17)
- She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court
• Derivationally related forms:
witnesser
• Hypernyms:
watch
• Hyponyms:
eyewitness
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. perceive or be contemporaneous with (Freq. 7)
- We found Republicans winning the offices
- You'll see a lot of cheating in this school
- The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions
- I want to see results
• Syn:
find, see
• Derivationally related forms:
finder (for: find)
• Hypernyms:
experience, see, go through
• Hyponyms:
catch
• Verb Group:
find, learn, hear, get word, get wind,
pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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