witness

Meanings

• someone who sees an event and reports what happened
• a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
• testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
• (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
• (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
• be a witness to
  • "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court"
• perceive or be contemporaneous with

Synonyms

attestant, attestator, attestor, find, informant, looker, see, spectator, viewer, watcher, witnesser