If you're walking down the street and see one car run a red light and plow into another, you are a witness to the accident. You saw it and can tell someone else how the accident happened.
Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
Noun
testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
Noun
a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"
Noun
someone who sees an event and reports what happened
Noun
(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Noun
(law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
Verb
be a witness to
Verb
perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You''ll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see
v. i.
Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
v. i.
That which furnishes evidence or proof.
v. i.
One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or
otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an
earwitness.
v. i.
One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before
a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential
facts.
v. i.
One who sees the execution of an instrument, and
subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his
testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like.
v. t.
To see or know by personal presence; to have direct
cognizance of.
v. t.
To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest.
v. t.
To see the execution of, as an instrument, and
subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to
witness a bond or a deed.
v. i.
To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.
Witness
May we with . . . the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.2.
Laban said to Jacob, . . . This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness.3.
Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.4.
This, I confess, is haste with a witness.
Witness
This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.
General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.2.
Behold how many things they witness against thee.3.
Witness
The men of Belial witnessed against him.
The witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with this event [martyrdom] that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness to death.
Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of.
To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.
Usage Examples
I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.
I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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