Usually means: Observer who verifies events' occurrence.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word witness:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. witness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. witness, witness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. witness: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. witness: Collins English Dictionary
  5. witness: Vocabulary.com
  6. Witness, witness: Wordnik
  7. witness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Witness, witness: Wiktionary
  9. witness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. witness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. witness: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Witness, witness: Dictionary.com
  13. witness: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. witness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Witness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. witness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. witness: Rhymezone
  19. witness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. witness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. witness: Free Dictionary
  22. witness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. witness: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. witness: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. witness: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. witness: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. witness: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. WITNESS: Accounting Glossary
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. witness: Legal dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. witness: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. witness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  2. witness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. witness: Genealogy Glossary
  2. WITNESS: Acronym Finder
  3. witness: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Witness: Easton Bible
  2. Witness: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Witness: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Witness: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. witness: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. THE WITNESS, witness: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
noun:  (countable) One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
noun:  (countable, law) Someone called to give evidence in a court.
noun:  (countable) One who is called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document.
noun:  (countable) Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish proof of, to show.
verb:  (transitive) To take as evidence.
verb:  (transitive) To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
verb:  (intransitive, construed with to or for) To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
verb:  To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
noun:  Jehovah's Witness

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