LOOKER-ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does looker-on mean? 

• LOOKER-ON (noun)
  The noun LOOKER-ON has 1 sense:

1. someone who looks on

  Familiarity information: LOOKER-ON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOKER-ON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who looks on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

looker-on; onlooker

Hypernyms ("looker-on" is a kind of...):

looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))

 Context examples 

Grant and Mrs. Norris to dispute over their last play, he became a looker-on at the other, he found his niece the object of attentions, or rather of professions, of a somewhat pointed character.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She always felt wicked after it, for the pretty things were seldom necessaries, but then they cost so little, it wasn't worth worrying about, so the trifles increased unconsciously, and in the shopping excursions she was no longer a passive looker-on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A weariness, arising probably, in great measure, from the same feelings which he had acknowledged in the morning, was peculiarly to be respected, and they went down their two dances together with such sober tranquillity as might satisfy any looker-on that Sir Thomas had been bringing up no wife for his younger son.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)