VIEWER
Dictionary entry overview: What does viewer mean?
• VIEWER (noun)
The noun VIEWER has 2 senses:
1. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
2. an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
Familiarity information: VIEWER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VIEWER (noun)
Meaning:
A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness
Context examples:
the spectators applauded the performance / television viewers / sky watchers discovered a new star
Hypernyms ("viewer" is a kind of...):
beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viewer"):
browser (a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular)
starer (a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility))
spy (a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people)
rubberneck; rubbernecker (a person who stares inquisitively)
playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer (someone who attends the theater)
looker-on; onlooker (someone who looks on)
ogler (a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person)
motion-picture fan; moviegoer (someone who goes to see movies)
gawker (a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness)
eyewitness (a spectator who can describe what happened)
cheerer (a spectator who shouts encouragement)
bystander (a nonparticipant spectator)
peeper; Peeping Tom; voyeur (a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others)
Meaning:
An optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("viewer" is a kind of...):
optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)
