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Viewer

noun

A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind). Synonyms: looker, spectator, watcher, witness. "Television viewers" , "Sky watchers discovered a new star"

An optical device for viewing photographic transparencies.

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"Viewer" Quotes from Famous Books

... being, I suspect, the very man, or some relation of his, who is recorded as not knowing whether he could read Greek, as he had never tried. And, besides, Mr. Solomon Rapid contended that all offices, from president down to fence-viewer, were open to every white American citizen; and that every republican had a blood-bought right to seek any that struck his fancy; and if the profits were less, or the duties more onerous than had been anticipated, that a man ought to resign ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various

... The direction of an object from the viewer; it is used in the following different phrases: The land's end bore E.N.E.; i.e. it was seen from the ship in a line with the E.N.E. point of the compass. We bore down upon the enemy; i.e. having the advantage ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

Words linked to "Viewer" : spectator, eyewitness, theatregoer, rubbernecker, peeper, rubberneck, theatergoer, view, optical device, starer, onlooker, playgoer, observer, watcher, percipient, spy, perceiver, ogler, bystander, witness, Peeping Tom, browser, cheerer, looker, moviegoer, beholder, motion-picture fan, looker-on, voyeur, gawker