watcher

/ˈwɑtʃər/

/ˈwɒtʃə/

Other forms: watchers

Definitions of watcher

1. noun

   a guard who keeps watch
   synonyms: security guard, watchman

   types:

   bank guard

   a security guard at a bank

   fire watcher

   (during World War II in Britain) someone whose duty was to watch for fires caused by bombs dropped from the air

   lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch

   a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

   night watchman

   a watchman who works during the night

   patroller

   someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area

   port watcher, portwatcher

   a watchman on a wharf

   type of:

   guard

   a person who keeps watch over something or someone
2. noun

   a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body
   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being
3. noun

   a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
   “sky watchers discovered a new star”

   synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, witness

   types:

   browser

   a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular

   bystander

   a nonparticipant spectator

   cheerer

   a spectator who shouts encouragement

   eyewitness

   a spectator who can describe what happened

   gawker

   a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness

   motion-picture fan, moviegoer

   someone who goes to see movies

   ogler

   a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person

   looker-on, onlooker

   someone who looks on

   playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoer

   someone who attends the theater

   rubberneck, rubbernecker

   a person who stares inquisitively

   spy

   a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people

   starer

   a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility)

   Peeping Tom, peeper, voyeur

   a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others

   first-nighter

   someone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions

   groundling

   in Elizabethan theater, a playgoer in the cheap standing section

   snoop, snooper

   a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others

   shadow, shadower, tail

   a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

   type of:

   beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient

   a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses