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Meanings of onlooker in English

Catalan
badoc
Spanish
curioso

Someone who looks on.

        badoc

        Someone who views an event (sports competition, movie etc.).

              Usage of onlooker in English
              1
              A village blacksmith describes his ancient craft to a fascinated young onlooker.
              Radio NZ
              2
              One onlooker said: The mob were just standing there cheering and laughing.
              The Guardian
              3
              An onlooker would have fancied he heard the creaking of ill-oiled machinery.
              Bureaucracy
              4
              To the onlooker, whose comment Epictetus also records, their aspect is mean:
              The Moral Economy
              5
              To an uninitiated onlooker, nothing could have been more ghastly or absurd.
              The History of the Telephone
              6
              Well, an election isn't a very restful time, even for the onlooker.'
              The Philanderers
              7
              Sheba stands before him, unseen face raised, her back to the onlooker.
              Wolf hall
              8
              The desperate finality of it; the utter futility of the onlooker.
              No Man's Land
              9
              One onlooker said: There were a series of very loud bangs.
              The Irish Times
              10
              An onlooker said: Chloe and Brooklyn are very much a couple.
              News.com.au
              11
              At least one onlooker is said to have attempted to copulate with it.
              The Guardian
              12
              To an onlooker that pantomime in the darkness would have seemed utterly grotesque.
              O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
              13
              Background:To the dispassionate onlooker, the Omagh trial appeared to have everything.
              The Irish Times
              14
              The onlooker has no choice but to look at the hypnodisc as well.
              A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
              15
              For the onlooker, this famous photograph captures the severity and horror of war.
              The Irish Times
              16
              But this left the onlooker ready to believe anything of it.
              The Man in the Twilight
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              Translations for onlooker
              Catalan
              badoc
              Onlooker through the time
              Onlooker across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common