eyewitness

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Alternative forms

• eye-witness
• eye witness

Etymology

From eye + witness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
   • 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.

Translations

person who has seen and testify about an event

• Armenian: ականատես (hy) (akanates) , վկա (hy) (vka) 
• Bulgarian: очевидец (bg) m (očevidec)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 目擊者 (cmn), 目擊者 (cmn) (mùjīzhě), 目擊證人, 目击证人 (mùjī zhèngrén)

• Czech: očitý svědek (cs) m
• Finnish: silminnäkijä (fi)
• French: témoin oculaire (fr) m
• German: Augenzeuge (de) m, Augenzeugin (de) f
• Greek: αυτόπτης μάρτυρας (el) (autóptis márturas) 

• Hebrew: עד ראיה (he) ('ad raiah)
• Hungarian: szemtanú (hu)
• Italian: testimone oculare (it)
• Korean: 목격자 (ko) (mokgyeokja)
• Norwegian: øyenvitne (no)
• Russian: очевидец (ru) (očevídec) m , свидетель (ru) (svidételʹ) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: očevidac (sh)
• Spanish: testigo ocular (es)
• Swedish: ögonvittne (sv)

Verb

eyewitness (third-person singular simple present eyewitnesss, present participle eyewitnessing, simple past and past participle eyewitnessed)

1. To be present at an event, and see it