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onlookers

[on-look-er, awn-]

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noun

spectator; observer; witness.

Origin:
1600–10; on + looker, after verb phrase look on

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Onlookers is always a great word to know.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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onlooker

c.1600, from on + look.

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"With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive—or even boring."

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