Antonyms for watcher


Grammar : Noun
Spell : woch-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒtʃ ər


Definition of watcher

Origin :
  • late 14c. (early 13c. as a surname), agent noun from watch (v.).
  • noun lookout
  • noun observer
Example sentences :
  • But the men were talking, and the watcher strained to catch their words.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • It is a watcher more than a doer, and it is a doer, only that it may the better watch.
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The watcher grunted again as he saw that this man was also masked.
  • Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts
  • Often on starry nights he would be a watcher of the heavens.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • He was alone now, surely, save for that watcher in the bushes.
  • Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • How the sea, which lay like a watcher at their doors, murmured in its sleep!
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 » by Various
  • The suggestion was no more than a suggestion in the mind of the watcher of all these bygone scenes.
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
  • It ought to be burned along with him, said a watcher, that he and the devils might be together.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
  • If the watcher was not Motoza or Tozer, he was an ally of theirs.
  • Extract from : « Two Boys in Wyoming » by Edward S. Ellis
  • The watcher was deeply affected by his grief-stricken appearance.
  • Extract from : « Eventide » by Effie Afton

Synonyms for watcher

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