[
US
/ˈwɑtʃɝ/
]
[ UK /wˈɒtʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒtʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a guard who keeps watch
- a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body
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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 watcher In A Sentence
- The channel's viewership is ageing, and attempts to attract younger watchers have yet to bear fruit.
- I immediately started thinking of the Amazon, ecotourism, and the fabulous ways that they could protect their bird species, because I am an avid bird-watcher. Spoken from the Heart
- The watcher's eyes glim - mered in the darkness, well back in the shadows, bright and feral. Ilse Witch
- Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.
- Every mahout and kavadi (tribal elephant watcher) would be with the elephant to keep it in good humour, the Warden added.
- Food industry watchers predict there will be more sales. Times, Sunday Times
- The mistake was Team McCain not insisting upon its own team of watchers / video to resplice all that hit the cutting room floor at CBS. Ace of Spades HQ
- Stuffier, or more fainthearted, royal watchers might have feared what the consequences of that might be. Times, Sunday Times
- An early result of that interest was his book Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, which helped establish the field of archaeoastronomy - the study of the astronomical practices, celestial lore, and cosmologies of ancient cultures.
- Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.