Definition of Onlooker

1. Noun. Someone who looks on.

Exact synonyms: Looker-on
Generic synonyms: Looker, Spectator, Viewer, Watcher, Witness

Definition of Onlooker

1. n. A looker- on.

Definition of Onlooker

1. Noun. A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Onlooker

1. a spectator [n -S] - See also: spectator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Onlooker

onlay graft
onlays
onlead
onliest
online
online public access catalog
online systems
onliner
onliners
onliness
onload
onloaded
onloading
onloads
onloft
onlooker (current term)
onlookers
onlooking
only
only(a)
only Nixon could go to China
only child
only children
only daughter
only daughters
only fools and horses work
only for
only if
only in America
only just

Literary usage of Onlooker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Encyclopédie would be a record, but it would also be a standard; not a mere onlooker, but a leader. In fact, appearing as it did in the third quarter of ..."

2. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"My work as heretofore lies quite out of it: I am an onlooker merely. God guide it all for the best; and take pity of the poor blinded sons of men — whose ..."

3. Fox-hound, Forest, and Prairie by Edward Pennell Elmhirst (1892)
"onlooker ABROAD AND AT HOME. THE Bicester country was new and pleasant ground that Brooksby essayed to ... onlooker saw enough to bear out all he had heard. ..."

4. From Appomattox to Germany: Pictures of the Great Events in a Wonderful Half by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1919)
"... XXVI THE STORY OF AN onlooker WHEN Lieutenant Hobson sank the Merrimac there was among his brave company a young ensign from Admiral Sampson's flag-ship ..."

5. At Random: Essays and Stories by Louis Frederic Austin (1896)
"Well, she has long had my forgiveness. Peace to her dainty pencil! THE SILENT onlooker. Adn-am affair " AT mX end of the ..."

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