spectator

see definition of spectator

nounperson who watches event

Synonyms for spectator

noun person who watches event

Antonyms for spectator

participant

attendees

noun. one who is present at a specific event

beholder

noun. perceiver

bystander

noun. person who watches

couch potato

noun. inactive person who watches a lot of television

eyewitness

noun. person who sees an event occur

Word Origin & History

1580s, from Latin spectator "viewer, watcher," from past participle stem of spectare "to view, watch" (see spectacle). Spectator sport is attested from 1943.

Example Sentences for spectator

She said, "The Spectator is not what it used to be in my father's time."

Instead of trying to be the hero of his own history, he seeks to be the spectator of his own tragedy.

I don't say who the man was, and I had nothing to do with the matter in any way except as a spectator.

But it is this peculiar difference which renders them interesting and charming to the spectator.

I used to turn as red as a poppy when I happened to meet the eye of some spectator.

Her reading was mostly in the Spectator, or in one of De Foe's works.

Suffering as he was, he resolved to be a spectator of what passed, and to watch narrowly.

Spectator: Certainly a book which has not merely cleverness but real vitality.

This number the spectator dialed on the phone Mr. Grace carried.

The King was in a galley as spectator; the Queen was in another.