eyewitness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: eye=wit=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

eyewitness, n. 

 One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.  [1913 Webster]
"We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

eyewitness, n. a person who has personally seen a thing done or happen and can give evidence of it.

THESAURUS

eyewitness

TV-viewer, absolute, adducible, admissible, attestant, attestative, attestator, attester, attestive, authentic, based on, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, certain, circumstantial, cojuror, compurgator, conclusive, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, deponent, determinative, documentary, documented, drugstore cowboy, earwitness, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, founded on, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, goggler, grounded on, hearsay, implicit, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, informant, informer, irrefutable, irresistible, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, material, nuncupative, observer, ogler, onlooker, overwhelming, passerby, perceiver, percipient, presumptive, probative, reliable, seer, sidewalk superintendent, significant, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, suggestive, sure, swearer, symptomatic, televiewer, television-viewer, telling, testifier, valid, video-gazer, viewer, voucher, watcher, weighty, witness

ROGET THESAURUS

eyewitness

Spectator

N spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on, onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by, sightseer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, spy, sentinel.

Evidence

N evidence, facts, premises, data, praecognita, grounds, indication, criterion, testimony, testification, expert testimony, attestation, deposition, examination, admission, authority, warrant, credential, diploma, voucher, certificate, doquet, docket, testamur, record, document, pi ce justificative, deed, warranty, signature, seal, exhibit, material evidence, objective evidence, witness, indicator, hostile witness, eyewitness, earwitness, material witness, state's evidence, deponent, sponsor, cojuror, oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence, proof, evidence in chief, secondary evidence, confirmation, corroboration, support, ratification, authentication, compurgation, wager of law, comprobation, citation, reference, legal research, literature search (experiment), showing, indicative, indicatory, deducible, grounded on, founded on, based on, corroborative, confirmatory, by inference, according to, witness, a fortiori, still more, still less, raison de plus, in corroboration, of, valeat quantum, under seal, under one's hand and seal, dictum de dicto, mise en evidence.