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viewer

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈvjuːə//
  • United States//ˈvju.ɚ//

Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.

    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.

    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?

  2. 2

    Someone who watches television.

  3. 3

    Any optical device used to view photographic slides.

  4. 4

    A program that displays the contents of a file.

  5. 5

    historicalAn appointed inspector or examiner

  6. 6

    historicalAn appointed inspector or examiner: The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.

Etymology

From Middle English vewer; equivalent to view + -er.

Forms

plural
viewers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).