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witness

 
Noun witness has 5 senses
  1. witness, witnesser, informant - someone who sees an event and reports what happened
    --1 is a kind of perceiver, observer, beholder; speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
    --1 has particulars: attester, attestant; testifier, deponent
    Derived form: verb witness1
  2. spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker - a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"
    --2 is a kind of perceiver, observer, beholder
    --2 has particulars:
     browser; bystander; cheerer; eyewitness; moviegoer, motion-picture fan; ogler; onlooker, looker-on; playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoer; rubberneck; spy; starer; voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper
    Derived form: verb witness2
  3. witness - testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
    --3 is a kind of
    testimony
    --3 has particulars: shahadah
  4. witness, attestant, attestor, attestator - (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
    --4 is a kind of signer, signatory
    Derived form: verb witness1
  5. witness - (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
    --5 is a kind of
    person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
    --5 has particulars:
     adverse witness, hostile witness; character witness; expert witness; lay witness; material witness
    Derived form: verb witness1
Verb witness has 2 senses
  1. witness - be a witness to
    --1 is one way to
    watch
    Derived forms: noun witness5, noun witness4, noun witness1, noun witnesser1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. witness, find, see - perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
    --2 is one way to experience, undergo, see, go through
    Derived form: noun witness2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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