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watcher::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | looker, spectator, viewer, witness |
| Type of | percipient, beholder, perceiver, observer |
| Has types | eyewitness, gawker, looker-on, browser, bystander, cheerer, motion-picture fan, moviegoer, ogler, onlooker, peeper, peeping tom, playgoer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, spy, starer, theatergoer, theatregoer, voyeur |
| Derivation | watch |
sky watchers discovered a new star.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | security guard, watchman |
| Type of | guard |
| Has types | picket, lookout man, bank guard, lookout, fire watcher, scout, night watchman, sentinel, sentry, patroller, port watcher, portwatcher, spotter, watch |
| Derivation | watch |
Examples of watcher
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Prices, which continue to inch upward, have stunned nearly every market watcher.
From the usatoday.com
Resident Yvonne Dinwiddie, an avid watcher of local governments, took exception.
From the dailyherald.com
Nationwide, such goods grew 10% last year, according to market watcher Nielsen.
From the businessweek.com
For most of five decades as a Redskins watcher, I never found the term demeaning.
From the washingtontimes.com
Many times, writers try to play it safe in an effort to snag the average watcher.
From the omaha.com
I like how you are a professional TV watcher and you can't even follow a program.
From the latimes.com
Royal watcher Robert Jobson said Prince Charles seemed relaxed after the service.
From the edition.cnn.com
Not being a Royal watcher, Feedback does not care greatly one way or the other.
From the newscientist.com
This is a familiar, if still alarming, litany for any watcher of modern China.
From the businessweek.com
- Spectator: a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"
- Watchman: a guard who keeps watch
- A person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body
- Watcher (Aramaic u05E2u05B4u05D9u05E8 iyr, plural u05E2u05B4u05D9u05E8u05B4u05D9u05DF iyrin, IPA u0295iu02D0r(iu02D0n); Theodotian trans: ir; from the root of Heb. `er, "awake, watchful"; Greek: u1F10u03B3u03C1u03AEu03B3u03BFu03C1u03BFu03B9, transl.: egru0113u0301goroi; Slav transliteration, Grigori, "Watchers", "those who are awake"; "guard", "watcher") is a term used in connection with biblical angels...
- In the fictional Buffyverse established by the television series Buffy and Angel, a Watcher is a member of a secret organization, the Watchers' Council, which seeks to prepare the Slayer to fight demonic forces.
- The Watchers are a fictional race of extraterrestrials that appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the first Watcher - named Uatu - appears in Fantastic Four #13 (April 1963).
- Logopolis is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 28 February to 21 March 1981. It was Tom Baker's last story as the Doctor and marks the first appearance of Peter Davison in the role. ...
- Watchers are a secret organization that watches the Immortals in the '''' and all subsequent related series and movies.
- Presence information watcher is an entity that requests presence information about a presentity from a presence service. Usually in order to get presence information a watcher have to subscribe for it to a presence server. ...
