spectator
noun /spekˈteɪtə(r)/
/ˈspekteɪtər/
- a person who is watching an event, especially a sports event
- The new football stadium will hold 75 000 spectators.
- Thousands of spectators lined the route of the royal procession.
Wordfinder- athlete
- champion
- compete
- fixture
- match
- record
- spectator
- sport
- stadium
- tournament
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsb2- He was rendered a virtual spectator for large parts of the game.
- Spectators lined the route of the president's walkabout.
- The stadium will seat 60 000 spectators.
- This year's festival attracted 87 000 spectators.
- I think soccer is the best spectator sport there is.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mere
- passive
- silent
- …
- crowd
- attract
- draw
- seat
- …
- gather
- turn up
- line something
- …
- event
- sport
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French spectateur or Latin spectator, from spectare ‘gaze at, observe’, frequentative of specere ‘to look’.