witness
noun
1. someone who sees an event and reports what happened
Similar word(s): informant, witnesser
Definition categories: person, beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient, speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer
2. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
Similar word(s): looker, spectator, viewer, watcher
Definition categories: person, beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient
3. testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
Definition categories: communication, testimony
4. (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Similar word(s): attestant, attestor
Definition categories: person, signatory, signer
5. (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
Definition categories: person, individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul
Sentences with witness as a noun:
- She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.
- As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
- The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
verb
1. be a witness to
- She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court
Definition categories: perception, watch
2. perceive or be contemporaneous with
Definition categories: perception, experience, see
Sentences with witness as a verb:
- This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
- He witnessed the accident.
- to witness a bond or a deed