Witness meaning

What does “witness” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“witness” is a noun and verb with 7 meanings. Its most common meaning is: someone who sees an event and reports what happened.

witness

someone who sees an event and reports what happened
Synonymswitnesser informant
a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
“the spectators applauded the performance”
“television viewers”
Synonymsspectator viewer watcher looker
testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Synonymsattestant attestor attestator
(law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law

be a witness to
“She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court”
perceive or be contemporaneous with
“We found Republicans winning the offices”
“You'll see a lot of cheating in this school”
Synonymsfind see

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University