NOUN | person | witness, witnesser, informant | someone who sees an event and reports what happened |
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person | witness, spectator, viewer, watcher, looker | a close observer | |
communication | witness | testimony by word or deed to your religious faith | |
person | witness, attestant, attestor, attestator | (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | |
person | witness | (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law | |
VERB | perception | witness | be a witness / witness / witness to |
perception | witness, find, see | perceive or be contemporaneous with |
Sounds | wih'tnahs | |
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Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... |
Meaning | someone who sees an event and reports what happened. | |
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Synonyms | witnesser, informant | |
Narrower | attester, attestant | someone who affirms or vouches / vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something |
testifier, deponent, deposer | A person who testifies or gives a deposition | |
Broader | perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder | A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses |
speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser | someone who expresses in language | |
Spanish | informante, testigo | |
Catalan | informant, testimoni | |
Verbs | witness | be a witness / witness / witness to |
Meaning | testimony by word or deed to your religious faith. | |
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Narrower | shahadah | The first pillar of Islam is an affirmation of faith |
Broader | testimony | A solemn statement / statement made under oath |
Spanish | testimonio | |
Catalan | testimoni |
Meaning | (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature. | |
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Synonyms | attestant, attestor, attestator | |
Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
Broader | signer, signatory | someone who signs and is bound by a document |
Spanish | testimonio | |
Catalan | testimoni | |
Verbs | witness | be a witness / witness / witness to |
Meaning | (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law. | |
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Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
Narrower | adverse witness, hostile witness | A witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party |
character witness | A witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation / reputation of another person in the community where that person lives | |
expert witness | A witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about | |
lay witness | Any witness who does not testify as an expert witness | |
material witness | A witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter | |
Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
Spanish | testigo | |
Catalan | testimoni | |
Verbs | witness | be a witness / witness / witness to |
Meaning | Be a witness / witness / witness to. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court" | |
Narrower | eyewitness | Be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes |
Broader | watch | look attentively |
Spanish | atestiguar, presenciar, testificar | |
Catalan | presenciar, testificar, testimoniar | |
Nouns | witness, witnesser | someone who sees an event and reports what happened |
witness | (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | |
witness | (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law |
Meaning | perceive or be contemporaneous with. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Synonyms | find, see | |
Narrower | catch | Become aware of |
Broader | experience, see, go through | go or live through |
Similar to | find | perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place |
learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see | Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | |
Spanish | atestiguar, presenciar, ver | |
Catalan | presenciar, testificar, testimoniar, veure | |
Nouns | witness | a close observer |
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