voyeur
See also: Voyeur
English
Pronunciation
Noun
voyeur (plural voyeurs)
Synonyms
- inspectionist (dated)
- peeping tom
Related terms
- voyeurism
- voyeuse (voyeur who is female)
- exhibitionist
Translations
a person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people
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an obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects
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See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vwa.jœʁ/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “voyeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /bwaˈʝeɾ/ [bwaˈʝeɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bwaˈʃeɾ/ [bwaˈʃeɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bwaˈʒeɾ/ [bwaˈʒeɾ]
- Rhymes: -eɾ
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “voyeur”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Declension
Declension of voyeur | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | voyeur | voyeuren | voyeurer | voyeurerna |
Genitive | voyeurs | voyeurens | voyeurers | voyeurernas |
Related terms
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