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VOYEUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does voyeur mean?
• VOYEUR (noun)
The noun VOYEUR has 1 sense:
1. a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
Familiarity information: VOYEUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
peeper; Peeping Tom; voyeur
Hypernyms ("voyeur" is a kind of...):
looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))
Derivation:
voyeuristic; voyeuristical (of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism)
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