Eyewitness

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eyewitness \Eye"wit`ness\, n.
     One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of
     anything.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. --2 Pet. i.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eyewitness
       n : a spectator who can describe what happened

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "eyewitness":
     TV-viewer, absolute, adducible, admissible, attestant, attestative,
     attestator, attester, attestive, authentic, based on, beholder,
     bird-watcher, bystander, certain, circumstantial, cojuror,
     compurgator, conclusive, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive,
     deponent, determinative, documentary, documented, drugstore cowboy,
     earwitness, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness,
     factual, final, firsthand, founded on, gaper, gazer, gazer-on,
     girl-watcher, goggler, grounded on, hearsay, implicit,
     incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, informant, informer,
     irrefutable, irresistible, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, material,
     nuncupative, observer, ogler, onlooker, overwhelming, passerby,
     perceiver, percipient, presumptive, probative, reliable, seer,
     sidewalk superintendent, significant, spectator, spectatress,
     spectatrix, suggestive, sure, swearer, symptomatic, televiewer,
     television-viewer, telling, testifier, valid, video-gazer, viewer,
     voucher, watcher, weighty, witness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EYE-WITNESS. One who saw the act or fact to which he testifies. When an eye-
  witness testifies, and is a man of intelligence and integrity, much reliance 
  must be placed on his testimony, for he has the means of making known the 
  truth.