Thesaurus:spy
English
Noun
Sense: a person who secretly gathers information about others
Synonyms
- espial (obsolete)
- espy (obsolete)
- ghost [⇒ thesaurus]
- intelligencer
- secret agent
- spook
- spy
- undie
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Holonyms
Further reading
- “spy” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “spy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- Some synonyms at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Some hyponyms at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.