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Spectator spec·ta·tor

Spelling: [spek-tey-ter, spek-tey-]

IPA: /ˈspɛk teɪ tər, spɛkˈteɪ-/

Spectator is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 805 anagrams from letters in Spectator (aceoprstt).

Definitions for Spectator

noun

1. a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
2. a person who is present at and views a spectacle, display, or the like; member of an audience.
3. Also called spectator shoe. a white shoe with a perforated wing tip and back trim, traditionally of dark brown, dark blue, or black but sometimes of a lighter color.
4. a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

Origin of Spectator

1580-90; Latin spectātor, equivalent to spectā(re), frequentative of specere to look, regard + -tor -tor

Examples for Spectator

I used to turn as red as a poppy when I happened to meet the eye of some spectator.

Then one daring, possibly planted, spectator interrupted the show to profess her crush.

But it is this peculiar difference which renders them interesting and charming to the spectator.

Instead of trying to be the hero of his own history, he seeks to be the spectator of his own tragedy.

I don't say who the man was, and I had nothing to do with the matter in any way except as a spectator.

Boos came from some of the families and friends in the spectator seats.

These days, authoritative feminist discourse is no longer just a spectator sport.

Through this, an active role is given to the spectator, who has inadvertently become an intrinsic part of the artwork.

He breaks down the divide between himself, as performer, and the fan, as spectator.

She said, "The spectator is not what it used to be in my father's time."