LOOKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does looker mean? 

• LOOKER (noun)
  The noun LOOKER has 2 senses:

1. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

2. a very attractive or seductive looking woman

  Familiarity information: LOOKER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness

Context example:

sky watchers discovered a new star

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

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "looker"):

browser (a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular)

bystander (a nonparticipant spectator)

cheerer (a spectator who shouts encouragement)

eyewitness (a spectator who can describe what happened)

gawker (a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness)

motion-picture fan; moviegoer (someone who goes to see movies)

ogler (a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person)

looker-on; onlooker (someone who looks on)

playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer (someone who attends the theater)

rubberneck; rubbernecker (a person who stares inquisitively)

spy (a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people)

starer (a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility))

peeper; Peeping Tom; voyeur (a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others)

Derivation:

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beauty; dish; knockout; looker; lulu; mantrap; peach; ravisher; smasher; stunner; sweetheart

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

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

 Context examples 

Soon after their reaching the bottom of the set, Catherine perceived herself to be earnestly regarded by a gentleman who stood among the lookers-on, immediately behind her partner.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A weariness, arising probably, in great measure, from the same feelings which he had acknowledged in the morning, was peculiarly to be respected, and they went down their two dances together with such sober tranquillity as might satisfy any looker-on that Sir Thomas had been bringing up no wife for his younger son.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Grant and Mrs. Norris to dispute over their last play, he became a looker-on at the other, he found his niece the object of attentions, or rather of professions, of a somewhat pointed character.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth's marrying Miss Bertram.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)