Beholder
[bɪ'həʊldə] or [bɪ'holdɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who beholds; a spectator.
Typist: Serena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Observer, spectator, looker-on.
Checker: Truman
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spectator, observer, bystander, witness, looker-on
ANT:[See BEHOLD]
Typist: Nora
Examples
- Fabre, fighting for a particular female who sits by, an apparently unconcerned beholder of the struggle, and then retires with the conqueror. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Here then is a kind of pity reverst, or contrary sensations arising in the beholder, from those which are felt by the person, whom he considers. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In her movements, in her gaze, she reminded the beholder of the feathered creatures who lived around her home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Turkish carpets are woven, and floors the world over are carpeted with those rich materials the sight of which would have astonished the ordinary beholder a half century ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This frequent rising of a drowning man from the deep, to sink again, was dreadful to the beholders. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checked by Anita