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Definition of Spotter
1. Noun. A worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots.
2. Noun. A worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers).
3. Noun. A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.
Generic synonyms: Security Guard, Watcher, Watchman
Derivative terms: Look Out, Spot, Watch
4. Noun. Someone who is the first to observe something.
Generic synonyms: Beholder, Observer, Perceiver, Percipient
Specialized synonyms: Co-discoverer
Derivative terms: Discover, Find, Find, Find, Find, Spot
Definition of Spotter
1. n. One who spots.
Definition of Spotter
1. Noun. A person who observes something. ¹
2. Noun. (military) A member of a sniper team. ¹
3. Noun. (weightlifting gymnastics climbing) A person who keeps watch of the person performing an activity, in order to help them should they be unable to complete it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spotter
1. one that spots [n -S] - See also: spots
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spotter
Literary usage of Spotter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"I wanted to satisfy myself whether he was a spotter of the Erie Railroad Company."
This doctor tells you he was there hunting up witnesses for his case, ..."
2. The Compiled Labor Laws of the State of Nevada: 1919 by Nevada, Robert F. Cole (1919)
"... Service Article 2—False Representation Regarding Wages and Conditions Article
3—Detective or spotter Causing Discharge of Employees Article 4—Employers ..."
3. The Conductor and Brakeman by Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (1885)
"some little inequality here; charges have been preferred by some spy or spotter
and are considered as truth or facts: no going behind the" ..."
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