Viewer

Quick meaning: Viewer is a noun meaning Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.

Meaning

Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.

More Meanings

1. Someone who watches television.
2. Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
3. (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
4. (now historical) An appointed inspector or examiner:

Example Sentences

It’s clear why enterprising people make the videos, but what compels so many viewers to watch an amateur video of some stranger they don’t know opening a box? What would compel a viewer to subscribe to the all-coffee channel and binge-watch a guy unpacking coffee makers?

This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.

Word Forms

• viewers

Synonyms for viewer

Depending on context, synonyms include watcher, spectator, witness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spectator, witness, watcher, onlooker, beholder, viewing.

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