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Definition: Bystander |
BystanderNoun1. A nonparticipant spectator. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bystander" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Bystander \By"stand`er\, noun. [By stander, equiv. to stander-by; compare to Anglo-Saxon big-standan to stand by or near.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: BystanderSynonyms: beholder, observer, spectator. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nearness | Bystander; neighbor, borderer. |
Presence | Bystander; (spectator). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bystander |
| English words defined with "bystander": Stander-by. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bystander": WOOD PECKER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I'm the innocent bystander (Lawyers, Guns And Money; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Guilty Bystander (1950) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Innocent bystander takes the rap. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Haiti | Two government supporters and one bystander were injured. (references) |
Malawi | One student protestor was shot in the chest and later died in the hospital; a bystander also was hospitalized after a bullet grazed his neck. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | On July 17, a police officer shot and killed a bystander while attempting to disperse a crowd in Jakarta. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bystander" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bystander" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 76 | 38,217 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bystander effect | 16 |
bystander | 15 |
bystander holocaust | 5 |
innocent bystander | 4 |
bystander intervention | 3 |
apathy bystander | 3 |
bystander german | 3 |
guilty bystander | 2 |
bystander german holocaust | 2 |
bible bystander gospels in silent story their witness | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bystander"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spektator (beholder, cinema-goer, looker on, onlooker, spectator), soditës (contemplative, voyeur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متفرج غير متدخل بشىء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свидетел (attestor, evidence, eyewitness, testifier, third person, witness), наблюдател (looker, looker on, observer, scrutineer, spectator, watcher), зрител (looker, looker on, onlooker, spectator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 外人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | náhodný divák. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناظر (Chamberlain, Onlooker, Overseer, Proctor, Spectator, Steward, Supervisor, Viewer, Warden), تماشاچی (Onlooker), تماشاگر (Onlooker, Spectator, Viewer), بیننده (Seer, Spectator, Viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spectateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zuschauer (audience, observer, onlooker, onlookers, spectator, spectators, viewer, viewers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παριστάμενοσ, θεατήσ (contemplator, looker on, onlooker, spectator, viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemlélõ (beholder, inspector, looker on, spectator), nézõ (looker on, onlooker, spectator, viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penonton (onlooker, spectator, watcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spettatore (audience, beholder, onlooker, spectator, spectators, viewer, witness), astante (onlooker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 岡目 (onlooker), 傍観者 (onlooker), 傍人 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おかめ (looking on by an outsider, onlooker, plain-looking woman), ぼうか"しゃ (onlooker), ぼうじ" (protection against dust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 방관자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fakider (fortune-teller, observer, seer, spectator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ystanderbay pessoa presente, espectador (beholder, eyewitness, kibitzer, looker on, onlooker, spectator, viewer, witness). (various references) trecãtor (evanescent, foot passenger, fugacious, fungous, goer, momentary, passer, passer by, passing, pedestrian, temporary, transient, transitory), spectator (beholder, looker, onlooker, outsider, patron, spectator, stander-by), martor ocular (eyewitness, eye-witness, spectator), asistent (assistant, demonstrator, helper, lecturer, mate). (various references) свидетель (affiant, attestor, deponent, eyewitness, onlooker, witness, witnesser). (various references) posmatrač (beholder, looker, looker on, observer, spectator, viewer, watcher). (various references) persona presente, espectador (audience, beholder, looker on, onlooker, spectator, spectators, viewer, witness). (various references) åskådare (audience, beholder, beholders, gallery, looker on, observer, observers, onlooker, spectator, viewer). (various references) ผู้เห็นเหตุการ"์ (eyewitness, onlooker). (various references) seyirci (audience, beholder, looker on, onlooker, public, spectator, televiewer, televisor, viewer), olaya karışmadan bir kenarda duran kimse. (various references) свідок (attestor, evidence, testator, voucher, witness), очевидець (beholder, eyewitness, spectator, witness, witnesser). (various references) người ngo i cuộc (outsider), người đứng ngo i xem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bystander": bystanders. (additional references) | |
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"Bystander" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Byzance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bystander" (pronounced bī"sta'nder) |
| 4 | -a' n d er | calamander, gerrymander, highlander, mainlander, oleander. |
| 3 | -n d er | Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, bender, binder, blander, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, Condor, contender, coriander, cylinder, defender, Ender, engender, extender, Fender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gander, gender, grander, grinder, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, lender, meander, minder, offender, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, rounder, salamander, sander, sender, Sidewinder, slander, slender, sounder, Spender, splendor, squander, Stander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: bartends. | |
-2 letters: banders, banters, bartend, barytes, bendays, betrays, dabster, redbays, standby, stander, strayed. | |
-3 letters: absent, antres, ardebs, ardent, astern, bander, banter, bardes, barest, baryes, baryte, basted, baster, beards, benday, bendys, betray, brands, brandy, brants, brayed, breads, bready, breast, brents, daters, debars, denars, denary, derats, derays, dryest, dynast, estray, nearby, ranted, redans, redbay, sabred. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-n-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: bystanders. | |
+3 letters: demonstrably. | |
+4 letters: subordinately. | |
+5 letters: indemonstrably, understandably, undesirability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 79 73 74 61 6E 64 65 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... -.--. ... - .- -. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B y s t a n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0079 0073 0074 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)369185866780707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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