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viewer


noun

  1. a person or thing that views.
  2. a person who watches television, often a devotee of television or of a particular kind of television program: a weekly show aimed at teenage viewers.
  3. any of various optical devices to facilitate viewing, especially one that is small and boxlike with a magnifying lens, and sometimes a light source, in which a photographic transparency may be viewed.
  4. an eyepiece or viewfinder.
  5. an official inspector of property, public works, or the like.

noun

  1. a person who views something, esp television
  2. any optical device by means of which something is viewed, esp one used for viewing photographic transparencies
  3. law a person appointed by a court to inspect and report upon property, etc
n.

early 15c., “civic official responsible for surveying property,” agent noun from view (v.). Meaning “watcher of television” first recorded 1935, in place of earlier suggestion looker-in (1927).

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