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Definition of witness : 1. Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
2. One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness.
3. 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.
4. One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts.
5. That which furnishes evidence or proof.
6. To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.
7. To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest.
8. To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of.
9. 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.

Synonyms:

go out, receive, construe, confess, discover, project, rule, interpret, token, regain, feel, signatory, knockout, figure, date, examine, escort, stamp, obtain, indication, take in, encounter, peach, sweetheart, realise, manifestation, consider, lulu, get, fancy, deponent, symptom, insure, attester, assure, attend, see to it, pick up, security guard, retrieve, visualize, evidence, envision, come across, come up, take care, get wind, aver, signification, realize, index, line up, avow, visualise, proclaim, run across, note, own, beauty, check, notice, chance, run into, go through, ensure, hear, understand, go steady, recover, testifier, deposition, smasher, incur, mantrap, badge, attestator, indicator, dish, source, law, experience, image, spectator pump, admit, profess, stunner, show, meet, control, witnesser, get hold, happen, testimony, protest, reckon, watchman, picture, sign, attestant, visit, attestor, find, ascertain, seer, learn, detect, knowledge, get a line, bump, find oneself, find out, informant, get word, ravisher, catch, mark

betoken, document, determine, evince, demonstrate, prove, corroborate, exemplify, establish, indicate, substantiate, connote, validate, observe, adduce, illustrate, certify, vouch, manifest, confirm, avouch, attest, state, support, exhibit, testify, declare, authenticate, depose

inspect, spy, discern, peek, peer, glare, stare, glimpse, sight, regard, see, glance

looker, bystander, perceiver, passerby, eyewitness, beholder, sightseer, onlooker, spectator, viewer, voyeur, watcher, gazer, observer, looker-on, audience, rubberneck

spectate, perceive, view, watch, look, sight see, gaze, behold

Usage examples:

• I think she will be called as a witness to- morrow. - "Hand and Ring", Anna Katharine Green.
• Wait- wait till to- morrow when I am witness. - "A Butterfly on the Wheel", Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull.
• You see your witness has failed you. - "The Main Chance", Meredith Nicholson.