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Webster 1913 Edition


Eyewitness

Eye′witˊness

,
Noun.
One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.
We . . . were
eyewitnesses
of his majesty.
2 Pet. i. 16.

Definition 2024


eyewitness

eyewitness

See also: eye-witness and eye witness

English

Alternative forms

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

  1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
    • 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan:
      And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.

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Verb

eyewitness (third-person singular simple present eyewitnesses, present participle eyewitnessing, simple past and past participle eyewitnessed)

  1. To be present at an event, and see it