onlooker
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
/ˈɒnlʊkə/
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/ˈɒnlʊkə/ · /ˈɔnlɵkə/ · /ˈɑnlʊkɚ/ · /ˈɔnlʊkɚ/ · /ˈɔnlʊkə/ · /ˈɔnlʉkəɾ/ · /ˈɒnlʉkəɹ/
Definition of onlooker
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating.
“I wasn’t involved in the fight; I was only an onlooker.”
“When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.”
“As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.”
“Please allow me to adjust my pants So that I may dance the good time dance And put the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From on + look + -er, probably from the verb look on, but compare with onlook.
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