Spectator

Definition: Spectator

Spectator

Noun

1. A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star".

2. A woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spectator" was first used: 1586. (references)

Etymology: Spectator \Spec*ta"tor\, noun. [Latin expression spectator: compare to the French expression spectateur. See Spectacle.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Spectator

Crosswords: Spectator

Latin (spectator, viewer, watcher), Romanian (beholder, bystander, looker, onlooker, outsider, patron, spectator, stander-by).

Take it from an old spectator, life's not a spectator sport. (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi)

This is considered a spectator sport? (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Daumier: Paris and the Spectator (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Basketball Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide (Spectator Guide Series.) (reference)

• The Spectator Bird (Contemporary American Fiction) (reference)

• Wine Spectator Complete Wine Tasting Kit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Spectator (reference)

• Columbia Daily Spectator (reference)

• Hamilton Spectator (reference)

• Militaire Spectator (reference)

• Niles Herald Spectator (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Spectator - Behind the Scenes of a Horse Show (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Life of a Spectator (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spectator at the Wild horse and burro adoption at Bloomington, Illinois. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Scene in Chatham Square - by a spectator. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spectator at an auction in East Albany, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Closeup of farmer, spectator livestock sales hall, Ames, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It is the peculiarity of sublime spectacles that they take possession of every soul, and make of every witness a spectator.

When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Music concerts, car and motorcycle races, and other spectator events often produce sound levels that warrant hearing protection. (references)

Model community ordinances could promote local planning to control environmental noise and, where feasible, noise levels at certain spectator events. (references)

Economic History

Slovak Rep

The only English language newspaper is the Slovak Spectator (tel.: +421 2 5292 7650, fax: +421 2 5292 7654, email: slspect@vyvsme.sk). There are two state-owned television stations and two privately owned television stations (with extensive coverage) in Slovakia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "spectator": spectator pump ♦ spectator sport. Additional references.

Beginning with "spectator": spectator-friendly, Spectator-highland, spectator-unfriendly.

Ending with "spectator": non-spectator, owner-spectator.

Afrikaans

toeskouer, kyker, aankyker. (various references)

Albanian

spektator (beholder, bystander, cinema-goer, looker on, onlooker), shikues (beholder, looker, looker on, onlooker, public, viewer, watcher), dëshmitar (attestor, deponent, eyewitness, witness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشاهد (observer, viewer), ‏المتفرج (onlooker), ‏المشاهد (attendant, looker on, onlooker), ‏الناظر (seer). (various references)

Bulgarian 

наблюдател (bystander, looker, looker on, observer, scrutineer, watcher), зрител (bystander, looker, looker on, onlooker). (various references)

Chinese 

观众 (Audience). (various references)

Czech

divák (looker on, onlooker, watcher). (various references)

Dutch

toeschouwer. (various references)

Esperanto

spektanto, rigardanto. (various references)

Faeroese

áskoðari. (various references)

Farsi 

ماشاچی , ناظر (Bystander, Chamberlain, Onlooker, Overseer, Proctor, Steward, Supervisor, Viewer, Warden), تماشاگر (Bystander, Onlooker, Viewer), بیننده (Bystander, Seer, Viewer). (various references)

Finnish

katsoja, katsoen, katselija (looker-on, onlooker). (various references)

French

spectateur. (various references)

German

Zuschauer (audience, bystander, observer, onlooker, onlookers, spectators, viewer, viewers). (various references)

Greek 

θεατήσ (bystander, contemplator, looker on, onlooker, viewer). (various references)

Hebrew 

משקיף (correspondent, observer), רוא�" (prophet, seer, visionary), צופ�" (observer, onlooker, seer, viewer, watcher, watchman). (various references)

Hungarian

szemlélõ (beholder, bystander, inspector, looker on), nézõ (bystander, looker on, onlooker, viewer). (various references)

Indonesian

penonton (bystander, onlooker, watcher). (various references)

Italian

spettatore (audience, beholder, bystander, onlooker, spectators, viewer, witness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

観覧者 (visitor), 観客 (audience), 見物人 (onlookers, sightseer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"きゃく (audience, disregard, negligence), か�"ら�"しゃ (Ferris wheel, visitor), け�"ぶつに�" (onlookers, sightseer). (various references)

Korean 

관람자. (various references)

Manx

jeeagheyder (viewer, voyeur), fakider (bystander, fortune-teller, observer, seer), cronneyder (detective, observer, viewer). (various references)

Pig Latin

ectatorspay

Portuguese

espectador (beholder, bystander, eyewitness, kibitzer, looker-on, onlooker, viewer, witness). (various references)

Romanian

spectator (beholder, bystander, looker, onlooker, outsider, patron, stander-by), privitor (looker, onlooker, outsider), observator (columnist, correspondent, envoy, looker, lookout, observatory, observer, onlooker, scout, spy), martor ocular (bystander, eyewitness, eye-witness). (various references)

Russian 

зритель (beholder, bystander, looker on, onlooker, viewer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

posmatrač (beholder, bystander, looker, looker on, observer, viewer, watcher), gledalac (beholder, onlooker, watcher). (various references)

Spanish

espectador (audience, beholder, bystander, looker on, onlooker, spectators, viewer, witness). (various references)

Sranan

watyiman, wakiman. (various references)

Swedish

åskådare (audience, beholder, beholders, bystander, gallery, looker on, observer, observers, onlooker, viewer). (various references)

Turkish

seyirci (audience, beholder, bystander, looker on, onlooker, public, televiewer, televisor, viewer), izleyici (audience, hanger-on, observer, onlooker, televiewer, viewer). (various references)

Turkmen 

tomaюaзy (onlooker). (various references)

Ukrainian

глядач (beholder, gazer, looker on, onlooker, viewer), очевидець (beholder, bystander, eyewitness, witness, witnesser). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người xem (audience, beholder, onlooker), khán giả (audience). (various references)

Welsh

edrychwr (beholder, looker). (various references)

spectator. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spectator": spectatorial, spectators, spectatorship, spectatorships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spectator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Spatahori, specator, spectate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: postrace, prostate, protects.

-2 letters: capotes, captors, carpets, coaster, coaters, copters, costate, cottars, cotters, esparto, patters, potters, preacts, precast, prosect, proteas, protect, protest, rotates, scatter, seaport, spatter, spectra, spotter, tapster, teapots, toaster, toecaps.

-3 letters: actors, aptest, aspect, capers, capote, captor, carets, carpet, cartes, cartop, caster, castor, caters, coapts, coarse, coater, copers, copras, copter, corpse.

+1 letter: spectators.

+2 letters: catastrophe, protectants, spatterdock, tetrasporic, triceratops.

+3 letters: catastrophes, compartments, counterparts, crepitations, decapitators, ectoparasite, expectorants, expectorates, inspectorate, postfracture, pterodactyls, spatterdocks, spectatorial, spermatocyte, sportscaster.

+4 letters: contemplators, cotransported, ectoparasites, ectoparasitic, electroplates, hypothecators, inspectorates, petrifactions, postdoctorate, postfractures, practitioners, precipitators, privatdocents, procrastinate, prognosticate, prostatectomy, protectorates, putrefactions, spectatorship, spermatocytes, sportscasters, stereotypical, stratospheric, streptococcal, thermoplastic, tracheophytes, triceratopses, trichopterans.

+5 letters: chemotherapist, containerports, contraceptions, contraceptives, contrapositive, cooperationist, decrepitations, ecocatastrophe, expectorations, petrifications, photoreactions, precipitations, presymptomatic, procrastinated, procrastinates, prognosticated, prognosticates, prosthetically, recomputations, repunctuations, spectatorships, spermatophytic, streptobacilli, superpatriotic, thermoplastics.