noun
Meaning 1
Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
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Standard Lemma guide
viewer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːə/
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General-American: /ˈvju.ɚ/
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noun
Meaning 2
Someone who watches television.
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noun
Meaning 3
Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
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noun
Meaning 4
A program that displays the contents of a file.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
An appointed inspector or examiner
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Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 6
An appointed inspector or examiner:
The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
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Usage: historical
Topics: business, mining
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noun
Meaning 7
an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: optical device
noun
Meaning 8
a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the spectators applauded the performance
- television viewers
- sky watchers discovered a new star
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spectator, witness, watcher, looker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
Narrower terms: browser, bystander, cheerer, eyewitness, gawker, moviegoer, motion-picture fan, ogler, onlooker, looker-on, playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, spy, starer, voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper
History
Etymology
From Middle English vewer; equivalent to view + -er.
Across languages
Translations
194 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: shikues — someone who views a spectacle
- Amharic: ተመልካች (tämälkač) — someone who views a spectacle
- Arabic: مُشَاهِد (mušāhid) — someone who views a spectacle
- Arabic: مَشَاهِدَة (mašāhida) — someone who views a spectacle
- Arabic: مُتَفَرِّج (mutafarrij) — someone who views a spectacle
- Arabic: مُتَفَرِّجَة (mutafarrija) — someone who views a spectacle
- Armenian: դիտող (ditoġ) — someone who views a spectacle
- Azerbaijani: tamaşaçı — someone who views a spectacle
- Bashkir: ҡараусы (qarawsı) — someone who views a spectacle
- Bashkir: тамашасы (tamaşası) — someone who views a spectacle
- Belarusian: гляда́ч (hljadáč) — someone who views a spectacle
- Belarusian: гляда́чка (hljadáčka) — someone who views a spectacle
- Bengali: দর্শক (dorśok) — someone who views a spectacle
- Bulgarian: зри́тел (zrítel) — someone who views a spectacle
- Bulgarian: зри́телка (zrítelka) — someone who views a spectacle
- Burmese: ကြည့်ရှုသူ (krany.hru.su) — someone who views a spectacle
- Catalan: espectador — someone who views a spectacle
- Chinese Mandarin: 觀眾 /观众 (guānzhòng) — someone who views a spectacle
- Chinese Mandarin: 看客 (kànkè) — someone who views a spectacle
- Czech: divák — someone who views a spectacle
- Czech: divačka — someone who views a spectacle
- Danish: tilskuer — someone who views a spectacle
- Danish: seer — someone who views a spectacle
- Dutch: kijker — someone who views a spectacle
- Dutch: toeschouwer — someone who views a spectacle
- Estonian: vaataja — someone who views a spectacle
- Finnish: katselija — someone who views a spectacle
- Finnish: katsoja — someone who views a spectacle
- French: spectateur — someone who views a spectacle
- French: spectatrice — someone who views a spectacle
- Georgian: მაყურებელი (maq̇urebeli) — someone who views a spectacle
- Georgian: მნახველი (mnaxveli) — someone who views a spectacle
- German: Zuschauer — someone who views a spectacle
- German: Zuschauerin — someone who views a spectacle
- German: Zuseher — someone who views a spectacle
- German: Zuseherin — someone who views a spectacle
- Greek: θεατής (theatís) — someone who views a spectacle
- Greek: θεάτρια (theátria) — someone who views a spectacle
- Hebrew: צוֹפֶה (tsofé) — someone who views a spectacle
- Hindi: दर्शक (darśak) — someone who views a spectacle
- Hindi: ईक्षक (īkṣak) — someone who views a spectacle
- Hungarian: néző — someone who views a spectacle
- Hungarian: szemlélő — someone who views a spectacle
- Icelandic: áhorfandi — someone who views a spectacle
- Indonesian: pemirsa — someone who views a spectacle
- Italian: spettatore — someone who views a spectacle
- Italian: spettatrice — someone who views a spectacle
- Kazakh: көрермен (körermen) — someone who views a spectacle
- Kazakh: көруші (köruşı) — someone who views a spectacle
- Kazakh: қараушы (qarauşy) — someone who views a spectacle
- Khmer: អ្នកទស្សនា (nĕək tŭəhsaʼnaa) — someone who views a spectacle
- Korean: 관람자 (gwallamja) — someone who views a spectacle
- Northern Kurdish: temaşeger — someone who views a spectacle
- Northern Kurdish: bîner — someone who views a spectacle
- Northern Kurdish: temaşevan — someone who views a spectacle
- Kyrgyz: көрүүчү (körüücü) — someone who views a spectacle
- Lao: ຜູ້ຊົມ (phū som) — someone who views a spectacle
- Latvian: skatītājs — someone who views a spectacle
- Latvian: skatītāja — someone who views a spectacle
- Lithuanian: žiūrovas — someone who views a spectacle
- Lithuanian: žiūrõvė — someone who views a spectacle
- Macedonian: гледач (gledač) — someone who views a spectacle
- Macedonian: гледачка (gledačka) — someone who views a spectacle
- Malay: penonton — someone who views a spectacle
- Māori: kaimātakitaki — someone who views a spectacle
- Mongolian: үзэгч (üzegč) — someone who views a spectacle
- Norwegian Bokmål: seer — someone who views a spectacle
- Norwegian Bokmål: tilskuer — someone who views a spectacle
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sjåar — someone who views a spectacle
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tilskodar — someone who views a spectacle
- Pashto: تماشاچي (tamāšāči) — someone who views a spectacle
- Iranian Persian: بینَنْدِه (binande) — someone who views a spectacle
- Iranian Persian: تَماشاچی (tamâšâči) — someone who views a spectacle
- Iranian Persian: تَماشاگَر (tamâšâgar) — someone who views a spectacle
- Polish: widz — someone who views a spectacle
- Portuguese: espectador — someone who views a spectacle
- Portuguese: espetador — someone who views a spectacle
- Romanian: spectator — someone who views a spectacle
- Romanian: spectatoare — someone who views a spectacle
- Russian: зри́тель (zrítelʹ) — someone who views a spectacle
- Russian: зри́тельница (zrítelʹnica) — someone who views a spectacle
- Serbo-Croatian: посматрач — someone who views a spectacle
- Serbo-Croatian: глѐдалац — someone who views a spectacle
- Serbo-Croatian: глѐдатељ — someone who views a spectacle
- Serbo-Croatian: posmatrač — someone who views a spectacle
- Serbo-Croatian: glèdalac — someone who views a spectacle
- Serbo-Croatian: glèdatelj — someone who views a spectacle
- Slovak: divák — someone who views a spectacle
- Slovak: diváčka — someone who views a spectacle
- Slovene: gledalec — someone who views a spectacle
- Slovene: gledalka — someone who views a spectacle
- Spanish: vidente — someone who views a spectacle
- Swahili: mtazamaji — someone who views a spectacle
- Swedish: åskådare — someone who views a spectacle
- Swedish: tittare — someone who views a spectacle
- Tagalog: manonood — someone who views a spectacle
- Tajik: бинанда (binanda) — someone who views a spectacle
- Tajik: тамошобин (tamošobin) — someone who views a spectacle
- Tajik: тамошогар (tamošogar) — someone who views a spectacle
- Tajik: тамошочӣ (tamošoči) — someone who views a spectacle
- Tatar: тамашачы (tamaşaçı) — someone who views a spectacle
- Thai: ผู้ชม (pûu-chom) — someone who views a spectacle
- Turkish: izleyici — someone who views a spectacle
- Turkish: seyirci — someone who views a spectacle
- Turkmen: tomaşaçy — someone who views a spectacle
- Ukrainian: гляда́ч (hljadáč) — someone who views a spectacle
- Ukrainian: гляда́чка (hljadáčka) — someone who views a spectacle
- Urdu: تَماشائی (tamāśāī) — someone who views a spectacle
- Uyghur: كۆرۈرمەن (körürmen) — someone who views a spectacle
- Uyghur: تاماشىبىن (tamashibin) — someone who views a spectacle
- Uzbek: tomoshabin — someone who views a spectacle
- Uzbek: tomoshachi — someone who views a spectacle
- Vietnamese: khán giả — someone who views a spectacle
- Vietnamese: người xem — someone who views a spectacle
- Yiddish: צוקוקער (tsukuker) — someone who views a spectacle
- Armenian: հեռուստադիտող (heṙustaditoġ) — someone who watches television
- Azerbaijani: izləyici — someone who watches television
- Azerbaijani: tamaşaçı — someone who watches television
- Bashkir: ҡараусы (qarawsı) — someone who watches television
- Belarusian: гляда́ч (hljadáč) — someone who watches television
- Belarusian: гляда́чка (hljadáčka) — someone who watches television
- Belarusian: тэлегляда́ч (teljehljadáč) — someone who watches television
- Belarusian: тэлегляда́чка (teljehljadáčka) — someone who watches television
- Bulgarian: зри́тел (zrítel) — someone who watches television
- Bulgarian: зри́телка (zrítelka) — someone who watches television
- Catalan: teleespectador — someone who watches television
- Catalan: televident — someone who watches television
- Danish: seer — someone who watches television
- Dutch: kijker — someone who watches television
- Finnish: katsoja — someone who watches television
- Finnish: televisionkatsoja — someone who watches television
- French: téléspectateur — someone who watches television
- French: téléspectatrice — someone who watches television
- Georgian: მაყურებელი (maq̇urebeli) — someone who watches television
- German: Zuschauer — someone who watches television
- German: Zuschauerin — someone who watches television
- German: Fernsehzuschauer — someone who watches television
- German: Fernsehzuschauerin — someone who watches television
- Greek: τηλεθεατής (tiletheatís) — someone who watches television
- Greek: τηλεθεάτρια (tiletheátria) — someone who watches television
- Hindi: दर्शक (darśak) — someone who watches television
- Hungarian: néző — someone who watches television
- Hungarian: televíziónéző — someone who watches television
- Indonesian: pemirsa — someone who watches television
- Japanese: 視聴者 (shichōsha) — someone who watches television
- Korean: 시청자 (sicheongja) — someone who watches television
- Macedonian: гледач (gledač) — someone who watches television
- Macedonian: гледачка (gledačka) — someone who watches television
- Māori: kaimātakitaki — someone who watches television
- Norwegian Bokmål: seer — someone who watches television
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sjåar — someone who watches television
- Polish: telewidz — someone who watches television
- Portuguese: telespectador — someone who watches television
- Portuguese: telespetador — someone who watches television
- Russian: зри́тель (zrítelʹ) — someone who watches television
- Russian: зри́тельница (zrítelʹnica) — someone who watches television
- Russian: телезри́тель (telezrítelʹ) — someone who watches television
- Russian: телезри́тельница (telezrítelʹnica) — someone who watches television
- Lower Sorbian: telewizny pśiglědowaŕ — someone who watches television
- Spanish: televidente — someone who watches television
- Spanish: telespectador — someone who watches television
- Spanish: telespectadora — someone who watches television
- Swahili: mtazamaji — someone who watches television
- Tagalog: manonood — someone who watches television
- Tagalog: tagapanood — someone who watches television
- Ukrainian: гляда́ч (hljadáč) — someone who watches television
- Ukrainian: гляда́чка (hljadáčka) — someone who watches television
- Ukrainian: телегляда́ч (telehljadáč) — someone who watches television
- Ukrainian: телегляда́чка (telehljadáčka) — someone who watches television
- Finnish: katselulaite — optical device
- French: visionneur — optical device
- French: visionneuse — optical device
- Georgian: პროექტორი (ṗroekṭori) — optical device
- Hungarian: diavetítő — optical device
- Hungarian: dianéző — optical device
- Russian: прое́ктор (proéktor) — optical device
- Russian: вью́ер (vʹjúer) — optical device
- Russian: вью́ер (vʹjújer) — optical device
- Spanish: visor — optical device
- Swahili: mtazamaji — optical device
- Finnish: katseluohjelma — program
- Finnish: katselin — program
- French: visionneur — program
- French: visionneuse — program
- Hungarian: megtekintő — program
- Hungarian: nézőke — program
- Macedonian: прегледувач (pregleduvač) — program
- Portuguese: visualizador — program
- Russian: програ́мма просмо́тра (prográmma prosmótra) — program
- Russian: вью́ер (vʹjúer) — program
- Russian: просмо́трщик (prosmótrščik) — program
- Spanish: visor — program
- Ukrainian: перегляда́ч (perehljadáč) — program
- Vietnamese: trình xem — program
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