beholder
/bɪˈhəʊldə
/noun archaic or literary
A person who sees or observes someone or something: the building and landscape can elicit imaginative responses from the beholder...
- Such images, the writer thought, could encourage beholders to accomplish noble deeds.
- His achievement is not in his emotional impact on the beholder.
- Ghirlandaio uses the gesture to address the beholder at the beginning of both triads of heroes.
