EYEWITNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eyewitness mean? 

• EYEWITNESS (noun)
  The noun EYEWITNESS has 1 sense:

1. a spectator who can describe what happened

  Familiarity information: EYEWITNESS used as a noun is very rare.

• EYEWITNESS (verb)
  The verb EYEWITNESS has 1 sense:

1. be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes

  Familiarity information: EYEWITNESS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYEWITNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spectator who can describe what happened

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("eyewitness" is a kind of...):

looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))

Derivation:

eyewitness (be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes)

• EYEWITNESS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they eyewitness    ... he / she / it eyewitnesses   
Past simple: eyewitnessed   
Past participle: eyewitnessed   
-ing form: eyewitnessing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "eyewitness" is one way to...):

witness (be a witness to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

eyewitness (a spectator who can describe what happened)

 Context examples 

"It tells us about impact processes from an eyewitness location."

(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)