意味: 目撃者、証人
例文: Momo acted as a witness in the great pillow theft mystery.
モモは枕盗難事件の証人となった。
定義: 事件を目撃し、何が起こったかを知らせる人
コロケーション:
witnessは30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。
Definitions(定義)
Noun: someone who sees an event and reports what happened
Noun: a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
Noun: testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
Noun: (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Noun: (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
Verb: be a witness to
Verb: perceive or be contemporaneous with
Parts of Speech(品詞)
Noun, Verb
Examples(例文)
Noun: the spectators applauded the performance
Noun: television viewers
Noun: sky watchers discovered a new star
Verb: She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court
Verb: We found Republicans winning the offices
Verb: You’ll see a lot of cheating in this school
Verb: The 1960’s saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions
Verb: I want to see results
Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)
Synonyms(類語): attestant, attestator, attestor, find, informant, looker, see, spectator, viewer, watcher, witness, witnesser
Antonyms(反意語):
Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)
Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): experience, perceiver, person, signer, speaker, testimony, watch
Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abhorrer, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, affidavit, african, agnostic, alliterator, amateur, amerindian, ancient, anomaly, anti, anti-american, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, attestation, audile, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, bather, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, best, birth, biter, black, blogger, blond, bluecoat, bodybuilder, bomber, brunet, bullfighter, buster, caller, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, case, cashier, celebrant, censor, chameleon, changer, charmer, chatterer, child, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, collector, color-blind person, combatant, come, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, conversationalist, convert, copycat, cosigner, counter, counterterrorist, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, cripple, dancer, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, declaration, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, dictator, dieter, differentiator, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, domestic partner, double, drawler, dresser, dribbler, driveller, drug user, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, ejaculator, elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, endorser, engineer, enjoy, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, ethnic, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, eyeglass wearer, face, faddist, faller, fastener, feel, female, fiduciary, finder, first-rater, follower, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gentile, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, grinner, groaner, growler, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, hearer, heterosexual, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, inquirer, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, jat, jew, jewel, jumper, junior, juvenile, killer, kink, kneeler, knocker, know, knower, large person, latin, laugher, leader, learner, lecturer, left-hander, leo, libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, lisper, literate, liver, longer, loose cannon, loved one, lover, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, manipulator, married, masturbator, measurer, mentioner, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, mother hen, motile, motormouth, mouse, mutilator, mutterer, namer, namesake, narrator, national, native, native speaker, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, noticer, nude, nurser, observe, occultist, optimist, orator, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, peer, perceiver, percher, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, picker, pisces, pisser, planner, player, posturer, powderer, prattler, precursor, preserver, primitive, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, ranter, realist, reciter, rectifier, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religious person, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, rubberneck, ruler, rusher, sagittarius, scientist, scorpio, scratcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, seer, segregate, self, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, showman, signer, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slav, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, spectator, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stammerer, stentor, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, stranger, struggler, subject, subornation, suffer, supernumerary, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, talking head, tapper, taurus, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, totemist, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trier, turner, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, venter, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visualizer, visually impaired person, vociferator, voicer, wailer, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, watch, watcher, weakling, weasel, whisperer, white, wiggler, winker, withholder, witness, worker, worldling, yawner
Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): adverse witness, attester, browser, bystander, catch, character witness, cheerer, expert witness, eyewitness, gawker, lay witness, material witness, moviegoer, ogler, onlooker, playgoer, rubberneck, shahadah, spy, starer, testifier, voyeur
Derivationally Related Words(派生語)
Derivationally Related Words: attest, finder, inform, look, spectate, view, watch, witness, witnesser
Categories(カテゴリー)
Domain Categories: law
Usage Category: formal
Usage Context: conversation, descriptive
Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun
Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)
Prefixes(接頭辞):
Suffixes(接尾辞): ness
Exam Level
大学受験レベル
英検準2級
Media Appearance(メディア登場例)
Books(洋書): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes
Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, The Bad Guys, Zootopia
Other Information(その他)
Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes
Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes
Emotion Categories: trust
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