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[ UK /spɛktˈe‍ɪtɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɛkteɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel
  2. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
    television viewers
    the spectators applauded the performance
    sky watchers discovered a new star

How To Use spectator In A Sentence

  • -- But I had the impression that the author of the Spectator was afflicted with a dropsy, or some such inflated malady, to which persons of sedentary and bibacious habits are liable. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
  • During a pretrial hearing last month, Abdulmutallab muttered "Osama's alive" to some spectators as he was brought into the courtroom and mumbled "jihad" when the judge used the phrase "al Qaeda" as she read the charges against him. Reuters: Press Release
  • Abdulmutallab, who muttered "Osama's alive" to some spectators as he was brought into the courtroom, mumbled "jihad" when Judge Edmunds used the name "al Qaeda" as she read the charges against him to the jury. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Marshals struggled in vain to prevent spectators rushing onto the racetrack.
  • And most spectators are alert, many of them bringing their own baseball gloves to catch souvenirs.
  • Well, in view of the fact that there is a slave part in it, I shall do just as I said and make it tragi-comedy. nunc hoc me orare a vobis iussit Iuppiter, ut conquaestores singula in subsellia eant per totam caveam spectatoribus, si cui favitores delegates viderint, ut is in cavea pignus capiantur togae; Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
  • Will spectators be able to afford multiple games at the same ground in a short space of time? Times, Sunday Times
  • The event allowed us to gain feedback from spectators and weightlifters.
  • The game ended a few hours too early, leaving players and spectators unsatisfied.
  • The sword chunked home at his feet to the accompaniment of a collective "ah!" from the spectators. Dragonfly in Amber
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