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spec⋅ta⋅tor

  [spek-tey-ter, spek-tey-]
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–noun
1. a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
2. a person who is present at and views a spectacle, display, or the like; member of an audience.
3. Also called spectator shoe. a white shoe with a perforated wing tip and back trim, traditionally of dark brown, dark blue, or black but sometimes of a lighter color.
Origin:
1580–90; < L spectātor, equiv. to spectā(re), freq. of specere to look, regard + -tor -tor

Related forms:
spec⋅ta⋅to⋅ri⋅al  [spek-tuh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-] , adjective

Spectator, The

 
–noun
a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
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spec·ta·tor   (spěk'tā'tər)   
n.  An observer of an event.

[Latin spectātor, from spectāre, to watch; see spectacle.]
spec'ta·to'ri·al (-tə-tôr'ē-əl, -tôr'-) adj., spec'ta·tor·ship' n.
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Spectator

Spec*ta"tor\, n. [L. spectator: cf. F. spectateur. See Spectacle.] One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." --Shak.

Syn: Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
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Language Translation for : Spectator
Spanish: espectador,
German: der, *die Zuschauer(in),
Japanese: 見物人
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spectator 
1586, from L. spectator "viewer, watcher," from pp. stem of spectare "to view, watch" (see spectacle). Spectate (v.) is a back-formation attested from 1929. Spectator sport is attested from 1943.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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