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    Witness

    Definitions

    1 | noun | someone who sees an event and reports what happened 2 | noun | a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) 3 | noun | testimony by word or deed to your religious faith 4 | noun | (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature 5 | noun | (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law 6 | verb | be a witness to 7 | verb | perceive or be contemporaneous with (7 meanings)

    Pronunciation

    w'itnuhs (IPA: wˈɪtnəs)

    Hyphenation

    wit-ness (7 letters | 2 syllables)

    First known use in English

    1300 (High Middle ages) (725 years ago)

    Word origin

    Old English

    Word frequency history

    Inflected forms

    witnesses | witnessed | witnessing

    Synonyms

    informant | witnesser | looker | spectator | viewer | watcher | find | see (total: 8)

    Narrower terms

    attestant | attester | deponent | deposer | testifier | browser | bystander | cheerer | eyewitness | gawker | looker-on | motion-picture fan | moviegoer | ogler | onlooker | ... (total: 32)

    Broader terms

    beholder | observer | perceiver | percipient | speaker | talker | utterer | verbaliser | verbalizer | testimony | signatory | signer | individual | mortal | person | ... (total: 22)

    Rhymes

    eyewitness | fitness (based on typical American pronunciation)

    Lexically close words

    fitness | wetness

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Phrases

    bearing false witness | bear witness | false witness | witness box | witness stand (total: 5)

    Other notable uses

    Witness (Amber Frey)

    Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements | Witness to Murder | Witness to Apartheid | Witness for the Prosecution | Witness | ... (total: 7)

    witness.com | witness.net | witness.info | witness.biz

    Crossword puzzle clues

    Testifier | Testimony giver | Watch (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

    Scrabble score

    10 (International English) | 10 (North American English)

    Phone keypad digits

    (???) 948-6377

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