Definition of witness

noun (n)

• someone who sees an event and reports what happened (noun.person)

  Synonym: informant, witnesser
  

  source: wordnet30
• a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) (noun.person)

  Synonym: looker, spectator, viewer, watcher
  

  source: wordnet30
• testimony by word or deed to your religious faith (noun.communication)

  source: wordnet30
• (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature (noun.person)

  Synonym: attestant, attestator, attestor
  

  source: wordnet30
• (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law (noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• be a witness to (verb.perception)

  Example:
  She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court.
  

  source: wordnet30
• perceive or be contemporaneous with (verb.perception)

  Synonym: find, see
  

  source: wordnet30
• To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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