Dictionary entry

Spectator

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Spec‐ta″tor (?), n. [L. spectator: cf. F. spectateur. See Spectacle.] One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. “Devised and played to take spectators.” Shak.

Syn. — Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.