eyewitness

See also: eye-witness and eye witness

English

Alternative forms

• eye-witness
• eye witness

Etymology

eye +‎ witness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. [from 16th c.]
   • 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.

   • 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: Accident at Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 522:

     The evidence of eyewitnesses and the distance travelled after the initial derailment confirmed that the train was travelling at 45 to 50 m.p.h. as it became derailed.

Translations

person who has seen and can testify about an event

• Afrikaans: ooggetuie sg
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شاهد عيان‎
• Armenian: ականատես (hy) (akanates), վկա (hy) (vka)
• Azerbaijani: şahid (az)
• Bashkir: шаһит (şahit)
• Belarusian: відавочца (vidavóčca)
• Bulgarian: очевидец (bg) m (očevidec)
• Catalan: testimoni ocular
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 目擊者／目击者 (zh) (mùjīzhě), 目擊者／目击者 (zh) (mùjīzhě), 目擊證人／目击证人 (mùjī zhèngrén)

• Czech: očitý svědek m
• Danish: øjenvidne n
• Dutch: ooggetuige (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: silminnäkijä (fi)
• French: témoin oculaire (fr) m
• Georgian: თვითმხილველის (tvitmxilvelis)
• German: Augenzeuge (de) m, Augenzeugin (de) f
• Greek: αυτόπτης μάρτυρας (el) (aftóptis mártyras)

  Ancient: αὐτόπτης m (autóptēs)

• Hebrew: עד ראיה‎ ('ad raiah)
• Hindi: गवाह (hi) (gavāh)
• Hungarian: szemtanú (hu)
• Indonesian: saksi mata (id)
• Italian: testimone oculare
• Japanese: 目撃者 (ja), 実見者
• Kazakh: көз көрген (köz körgen), куә (kuä)
• Korean: 목격자 (ko) (mokgyeokja)
• Latin: arbiter (la) m, arbitra f
• Latvian: aculiecinieks m
• Lithuanian: liùdininkas m
• Luxembourgish: Aenzeien m or f
• Macedonian: оче́видец m (očévidec)
• Malayalam: ദൃക്‌സാക്ഷി (dr̥k‌sākṣi)
• Mongolian: гэрч (mn) (gerč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øyenvitne n, øyevitne n

  Nynorsk: augevitne n, augnevitne n

• Persian: شاهد عینی‎
• Polish: naoczny świadek m
• Portuguese: testemunha ocular (pt) f
• Romanian: martor ocular (ro) m
• Russian: очеви́дец (ru) m (očevídec), свиде́тель (ru) m (svidételʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: očevidac (sh)
• Spanish: testigo ocular (es)
• Swedish: ögonvittne (sv)
• Tajik: шоҳид (šohid)
• Thai: , ประจักษ์พยาน (bprà-jàk-pá-yaan), สักขีพยาน (sàk-kǐi-pá-yaan)
• Turkish: görgü tanığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: очеви́дець m (očevýdecʹ) самови́дець m (samovýdecʹ)
• Uzbek: guvoh (uz)

Verb

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

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