Eyewitness Definition

īwĭtnĭs
eyewitnesses
noun
A person who sees or has seen something happen, as an accident, crime, etc.
Webster's New World
A person who testifies to what he or she has seen.
Webster's New World
An individual who saw the occurrence of an event and may be called upon to testify about it in court.
Webster's New World Law

Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.

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verb

To be present at an event, and see it.

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Other Word Forms of Eyewitness

Noun

Singular:
eyewitness
Plural:
eyewitnesses

Origin of Eyewitness

Eyewitness Sentence Examples

  • Of Greece proper he saw but little; it is by no means certain that he even visited Athens, and though he describes Corinth as an eyewitness, it is clear that he was never at Delphi, and was not aware that the ruins of Mycenae still existed.

  • One eyewitness reported it to be "…quite a scene."

  • He had been an eyewitness of and an actor in the events which he describes, but his testimony must be accepted with caution.

  • After travelling from Lhasa to Peking with a lama mission he returned, again by Lhasa, to India, and was an eyewitness of the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1737.

  • The USA edition has an equally tendentious title - Eyewitness to Jesus.

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