eyewitness
See also: eye-witness and eye witness
English
Alternative forms
Noun
eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)
- Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. [from 16th c.]
- 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan:
- And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.
- 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: Accident at Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 522:
- The evidence of eyewitnesses and the distance travelled after the initial derailment confirmed that the train was travelling at 45 to 50 m.p.h. as it became derailed.
Translations
person who has seen and can testify about an event
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Verb
eyewitness (third-person singular simple present eyewitnesses, present participle eyewitnessing, simple past and past participle eyewitnessed)
- To be present at an event, and see it
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