watcher

watcher
noun
1. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) (Freq. 1)
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the spectators applauded the performance

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television viewers

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sky watchers discovered a new star

• Syn: ↑spectator, ↑witness, ↑viewer, ↑looker
• Derivationally related forms: ↑look (for: ↑looker), ↑watch, ↑view (for: ↑viewer), ↑witness (for: ↑witness), ↑spectate (for: ↑spectator)
• Hypernyms: ↑perceiver, ↑percipient, ↑observer, ↑beholder
• Hyponyms:
2. a guard who keeps watch
• Syn: ↑watchman, ↑security guard
• Derivationally related forms: ↑watch
• Hypernyms: ↑guard
• Hyponyms:
• Member Holonyms: ↑security force, ↑private security force
3. a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body
• Hypernyms: ↑person, ↑individual, ↑someone, ↑somebody, ↑mortal, ↑soul

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