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WITNESSER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who sees an event and reports what happened

Synonyms:

informant; witness; witnesser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("witnesser" is a kind of...):

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "witnesser"):

attestant; attester (someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something)

deponent; deposer; testifier (a person who testifies or gives a deposition)

Derivation:

witness (be a witness to)

Credits