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[ noun ahy-wit-nis, ahy-wit-nis; verb ahy-wit-nis ] / noun ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs, ˈaɪˈwɪt nɪs; verb ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR eyewitness ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person who actually sees some act, occurrence, or thing and can give a firsthand account of it: There were two eyewitnesses to the murder. verb (used with object)to view with one's own eyes: to eyewitness a murder. Origin of eyewitnessFirst recorded in 1530–40; eye + witness Words nearby eyewitnesseyewater, eye-watering, eyewear, eyewink, eyewinker, eyewitness, eye worm, eyot, eyra, eyre, Eyre Peninsula Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for eyewitnessObama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The Telegraph. When Your Royalty Met Ours: Kate Meets Bey Courtside|Tom Sykes|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Mr Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The Telegraph. Kate Middleton and Prince William's $2m Dinner|Tom Sykes|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST One eyewitness reported seeing the police force students out of another bus at gunpoint. Anatomy of a Mexican Student Massacre|Jason McGahan|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST With them go our only eyewitness accounts of the real effects of nuclear war. Truman’s Grandson & Japan’s A-Bomb Survivors: A Story of Reconciliation|Clifton Truman Daniel|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Their hub is an aggregate of photographs and eyewitness reports taken by hundreds of collectives. Brazil’s World Cup Is An Expensive, Exploitative Nightmare|Vac Verikaitis|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST An eyewitness says of these martyrs to liberty: "They behaved with firmness, evincing no hesitation or trepidation whatever." Kentucky in American Letters, v. 2 of 2|John Wilson Townsend The extent, nevertheless, to which he speaks as an eyewitness, renders his work very valuable. The Age of Dryden|Richard Garnett There was a glorious crash coming, and for his part he meant to be an eyewitness. The Best Short Stories of 1919|Various I can also give you a description of the siege, having been an eyewitness of the same. Soyer's Culinary Campaign|Alexis Soyer That the narrative bears evidence of having been written by an eyewitness is to my own mind clear. Who Wrote the Bible?|Washington Gladden
British Dictionary definitions for eyewitness
noun- a person present at an event who can describe what happened
- (as modifier)an eyewitness account
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to eyewitnessbystander, observer, witness, viewer, beholder, watcher, spectator, onlooker, passer-by, looker-on |