witness

witness is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
2. intransitive verb. That which furnishes evidence or proof.
3. intransitive verb. One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness.
4. intransitive verb. One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts.
5. intransitive verb. 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.
6. transitive verb. To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of.
7. transitive verb. To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. intransitive verb. To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.
10. noun. testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
11. noun. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

    "the spectators applauded the performance"

    "television viewers"

    Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, watcher

12. noun. someone who sees an event and reports what happened

    Synonyms: informant, witnesser

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

    Synonyms: attestant, attestator, attestor

14. noun. (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
15. verb. be a witness to

    "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court"

16. verb. perceive or be contemporaneous with

    "We found Republicans winning the offices"

    "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"

    Synonyms: find, see

Synonyms

looker, spectator, viewer, watcher, informant, witnesser, attestant, attestator, attestor, find, see

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in witness:

wisents

Common word forms

witnessed, witnesser, witnesses, witnessing, witnessable

Words from these letters

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