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Definition of Onlooker
1. Noun. Someone who looks on.
Definition of Onlooker
1. n. A looker- on.
Definition of Onlooker
1. Noun. A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Onlooker
1. a spectator [n -S] - See also: spectator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onlooker
Literary usage of Onlooker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Encyclopédie would be a record, but it would also be a standard; not a mere
onlooker, but a leader. In fact, appearing as it did in the third quarter of ..."
2. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"My work as heretofore lies quite out of it: I am an onlooker merely. God guide
it all for the best; and take pity of the poor blinded sons of men — whose ..."
3. Fox-hound, Forest, and Prairie by Edward Pennell Elmhirst (1892)
"onlooker ABROAD AND AT HOME. THE Bicester country was new and pleasant ground
that Brooksby essayed to ... onlooker saw enough to bear out all he had heard. ..."
4. From Appomattox to Germany: Pictures of the Great Events in a Wonderful Half by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1919)
"... XXVI THE STORY OF AN onlooker WHEN Lieutenant Hobson sank the Merrimac there
was among his brave company a young ensign from Admiral Sampson's flag-ship ..."
5. At Random: Essays and Stories by Louis Frederic Austin (1896)
"Well, she has long had my forgiveness. Peace to her dainty pencil! THE SILENT
onlooker. Adn-am affair " AT mX end of the ..."
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