Usually means: Observer of an event, passively.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word spectator:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spectator: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spectator: Merriam-Webster
  3. spectator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spectator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spectator: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spectator: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spectator, spectator: Wordnik
  8. spectator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spectator: Wiktionary
  10. spectator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spectator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spectator: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spectator, the spectator: Dictionary.com
  14. spectator: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spectator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spectator (Dungeons & Dragons), Spectator (disambiguation), Spectator, The Spectator (Indian newspaper), The Spectator (Stuyvesant High School), The Spectator (VSU), The Spectator, The spectator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spectator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spectator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spectator: Rhymezone
  20. spectator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spectator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spectator: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spectator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spectator: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. spectator: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spectator, The Spectator: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spectator: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  One who watches an event; especially, an event held outdoors.
▸ noun:  One who observes, sees, or views something; an observer.

Similar:
viewer, watcher, witness, spectator pump, spectatour, onlooker, looker-on, beholder, telespectator, bystander, more...

Opposite:
participant, player, performer, competitor, actor

Types:
fan, viewer, audience, attendee, patron, clientele, more...

Phrases:
The Spectator, spectator sports, spectator sport, spectator ions, spectator ion, more...

Adjectives:
mere, impartial, passive, interested, silent, female, idle, disinterested, indifferent, male, unconcerned

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Similar:
viewer, watcher, witness, spectator pump, spectatour, onlooker, looker-on, beholder, telespectator, bystander, more...

Opposite:
participant, player, performer, competitor, actor

Types:
fan, viewer, audience, attendee, patron, clientele, more...

Phrases:
The Spectator, spectator sports, spectator sport, spectator ions, spectator ion, spectator pump, Spectator shoe, The American Spectator, Wine Spectator, Spectator Index, Columbia Daily Spectator, more...

Adjectives:
mere, impartial, passive, interested, silent, female, idle, disinterested, indifferent, male, unconcerned

Colors:
    black,     white,     gray,     charcoal,     silver, more...



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