Definitions for observer

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observer ob·serv·er

Spelling: [uh b-zur-ver]

IPA: /əbˈzɜr vər/

Observer is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in observer (beeorrsv).

Definitions for observer

noun

1. someone or something that observes.
2. a delegate to an assembly or gathering, who is sent to observe and report but not to take part officially in its activities.
3. U.S. Air Force. a member of an aircrew, other than the pilot, holding an aeronautical rating. a person who maintains observation in an aircraft during flight.
4. Also called air observer, aircraft observer. U.S. Army. a person who serves in an aircraft as a reconnoiterer and directs artillery fire.

Origin of observer

First recorded in 1545-55; observe + -er¹

Examples for observer

I shall endeavour to be only an observer: Happy, if I could be an unconcerned one!

It would have been impossible for the most minute observer to have said who was before and who was after.

The New York observer claimed Clark-Flory was the chosen one (she vehemently denied it in an email to The Daily Beast).

You can put mag wheels on a Gremlin,” commented one long time Michigan observer, “but that doesn't make it a Mustang.

Hast thou heard the saying of Gwiawn, The observer of accurate sight?

And the Jamaica observer routinely runs hideous cartoons about gay people and incites violence against them.

The native American, it may be well to remember, is something of an observer himself.

"You are vastly mistaken, my good friend," said the observer.

“A scary precedent has been set,” she told the observer back in May.

Trierweiler has also expressed regret over the tweet in a recent interview with the U.K. observer.