spectator
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teɪ 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; < Latin spectātor, equivalent to spectā(re), frequentative of specere to look, regard + -tor -tor
1580–90; < Latin spectātor, equivalent to spectā(re), frequentative of specere to look, regard + -tor -tor
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Spectator, The
noun
a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
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| —n | |
| a person viewing anything; onlooker; observer | |
| [C16: from Latin, from spectāre to watch; see | |
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Word Origin & History
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.
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Example sentences
These portable bleachers are ideal for any spectator event held in a park, parking lot or even indoors.
Watching celebrities walk the red carpet before an award show has become an increasingly popular spectator sport.
The spectator, not the actor, holds the clue to the meaning of human affairs.
The primaries are best viewed as a spectator sport, and people want to be entertained.
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