watcher

[ woch-er ]

/ ˈwɒtʃ ər /

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noun

a person who watches or who keeps watch.

an analytic observer of trends, fashions, events, celebrities, or the like: Fashion watchers will have noted that pleats have become popular again.

a professional or experienced observer and analyst of political and historic trends and events, countries, or the like: China watchers in the State Department predict a change in that country's trade policy.

poll watcher.

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Origin of watcher

First recorded in 1500–10; watch + -er¹

Related formsun·der·watch·er, noun

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Examples from the Web for watcher

Being a novice Syrian War watcher, I assumed the regime had returned in force.
Watching ISIS Come to Power Again|Elliot Ackerman|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To many a Mideast watcher, then, the supposed policy shift could be dismissed as Bandar rantings.
Saudi Fears and Mysteries|Leslie H. Gelb|October 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But the watcher made no movement, nor could I hear a sound, save that of the rising wind playing its dirge through the woods.
In Hostile Red|Joseph Altsheler
Lora knew that his spirit would have to become the Watcher of Graves till such time as another soul should lapse into the silence.
Pharais and The Mountain Lovers|Fiona Macleod

Past need of flight was she, for she was dead, though so peacefully that her watcher had not known it.
King Alfred's Viking|Charles W. Whistler
If ever the watcher could have seen so sinister a sight, it should have been on this, the fatal night of December 11, 1899.
The Great Boer War|Arthur Conan Doyle
It must have been a watcher hidden amongst the trees on the terrace.
The Weight of the Crown|Fred M. White

British Dictionary definitions for watcher

watcher

/ (ˈwɒtʃə) /

noun

a person who watches

a person who maintains a vigil at the bedside of an invalid

US a representative of a candidate or party stationed at a poll on election day to watch out for fraud

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Word Origin and History for watcher