English
Etymology
From Middle English vewer; equivalent to view + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
viewer (plural viewers)
- Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, →ISBN, page 11:This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.
2014 February 13, Heather Kelly, “The bizarre, lucrative world of ‘unboxing’ videos”, in CNN[1]:It’s clear why enterprising people make the videos, but what compels so many viewers to watch an amateur video of some stranger they don’t know opening a box? What would compel a viewer to subscribe to the all-coffee channel and binge-watch a guy unpacking coffee makers?
- Someone who watches television.
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
- (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
- (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
Derived terms
Translations
someone who views a spectacle
- Albanian: shikues (sq) m
- Amharic: ተመልካች (tämälkač)
- Arabic: مُشَاهِد m (mušāhid), مَشَاهِدَة f (mašāhida)
- Armenian: դիտող (hy) (ditoġ)
- Azerbaijani: tamaşaçı (az)
- Bashkir: ҡараусы (qarawsı), тамашасы (tamaşası)
- Belarusian: гляда́ч (be) m (hljadáč), гляда́чка f (hljadáčka)
- Bengali: দর্শক (bn) (dorśok)
- Bulgarian: зри́тел (bg) m (zrítel), зри́телка f (zrítelka)
- Burmese: ကြည့်ရှုသူ (krany.hru.su)
- Catalan: espectador (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 觀眾 / 观众 (zh) (guānzhòng) (spectators, audience), 看客 (zh) (kànkè)
- Czech: divák (cs) m, divačka f
- Danish: tilskuer c, seer (da)
- Dutch: kijker (nl) m, toeschouwer (nl) m
- Estonian: vaataja
- Finnish: katselija (fi), katsoja (fi)
- French: spectateur (fr) m, spectatrice (fr) f
- Georgian: მაყურებელი (maq̇urebeli), მნახველი (mnaxveli)
- German: Zuschauer (de) m, Zuschauerin (de) f, Zuseher (de) m, Zuseherin (de) f
- Greek: θεατής (el) (theatís), θεάτρια (el) f (theátria)
- Hebrew: צוֹפֶה (he) m (tsofé)
- Hindi: दर्शक (hi) m (darśak)
- Hungarian: néző (hu), szemlélő (hu)
- Icelandic: áhorfandi (is) m
- Italian: spettatore (it) m, spettatrice (it) f
- Japanese: 視聴者 (ja) (しちょうしゃ, shichōsha)
- Kazakh: көрермен (körermen), көруші (köruşı), қараушы (qarauşy)
- Khmer: អ្នកទស្សនា (nĕək tŭəhsaʼnaa)
- Korean: 시청자(視聽者) (ko) (sicheongja), 관람자(觀覽者) (gwallamja)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: temaşeger (ku), bîner (ku), temaşevan (ku)
- Kyrgyz: көрүүчү (ky) (körüücü)
- Lao: ຜູ້ຊົມ (phū som)
- Latvian: skatītājs m
- Lithuanian: žiūrovas m, žiūrõvė f
- Macedonian: гледач m (gledač), гледачка f (gledačka)
- Malay: penonton (ms)
- Maori: kaimātakitaki
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: үзэгч (mn) (üzegč)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: seer (no), tilskuer m
- Nynorsk: sjåar m, tilskodar m
- Pashto: تماشاچي m or f (tamāšāči)
- Persian: بیننده (fa) (binande), تماشاچی (fa) (tamâšâči)
- Polish: widz (pl) m
- Portuguese: espectador (pt), espetador (pt)
- Romanian: spectator (ro) m, spectatoare (ro) f
- Russian: зри́тель (ru) m (zrítelʹ), зри́тельница (ru) f (zrítelʹnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: посматрач m, глѐдалац m, глѐдатељ m
- Roman: posmatrač (sh) m, glèdalac (sh) m, glèdatelj (sh) m
- Slovak: divák (sk) m, diváčka f
- Slovene: gledalec (sl) m, gledalka f
- Spanish: espectador (es) m, espectadora (es) f
- Swahili: mtazamaji (sw)
- Swedish: åskådare (sv) c, tittare (sv) c
- Tajik: бинанда (binanda), тамошобин (tamošobin)
- Tatar: тамашачы (tt) (tamaşaçı)
- Thai: ผู้ชม (pûu-chom)
- Turkish: izleyici (tr), seyirci (tr)
- Turkmen: tomaşaçy
- Ukrainian: гляда́ч m (hljadáč), гляда́чка f (hljadáčka)
- Urdu: تماشائی m (tamāśāi'ī)
- Uyghur: كۆرۈرمەن (körürmen)
- Uzbek: tomoshabin (uz), tomoshachi (uz)
- Vietnamese: khán giả (vi), người xem
- Yiddish: צוקוקער m (tsukuker)
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someone who watches television
- Armenian: հեռուստադիտող (hy) (heṙustaditoġ)
- Azerbaijani: izləyici, tamaşaçı (az)
- Bashkir: ҡараусы (qarawsı)
- Belarusian: гляда́ч (be) m (hljadáč), гляда́чка f (hljadáčka), тэлегляда́ч m (teljehljadáč), тэлегляда́чка f (teljehljadáčka)
- Bulgarian: зри́тел (bg) m (zrítel), зри́телка f (zrítelka)
- Catalan: teleespectador m, televident m or f
- Danish: seer (da) c
- Dutch: kijker (nl) m
- Finnish: katsoja (fi), televisionkatsoja
- French: téléspectateur (fr) m, téléspectatrice (fr) f
- Georgian: მაყურებელი (maq̇urebeli)
- German: Zuschauer (de) m, Zuschauerin (de) f, Fernsehzuschauer (de) m, Fernsehzuschauerin (de) f
- Greek: τηλεθεατής (el) m (tiletheatís), τηλεθεάτρια (el) f (tiletheátria)
- Hungarian: néző (hu), televíziónéző (hu)
- Macedonian: гледач m (gledač), гледачка f (gledačka)
- Maori: kaimātakitaki
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: seer (no) m
- Nynorsk: sjåar m
- Polish: telewidz (pl) m
- Portuguese: telespectador (pt), telespetador
- Russian: зри́тель (ru) m (zrítelʹ), зри́тельница (ru) f (zrítelʹnica), телезри́тель (ru) m (telezrítelʹ), телезри́тельница (ru) f (telezrítelʹnica)
- Spanish: televidente m or f, telespectador (es) m, telespectadora f
- Swahili: mtazamaji (sw)
- Ukrainian: гляда́ч m (hljadáč), гляда́чка f (hljadáčka), телегляда́ч m (telehljadáč), телегляда́чка f (telehljadáčka)
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Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
viewer
- alternative form of vewer
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English viewer.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈviw.eʁ/ [ˈviʊ̯.eh]
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈviw.eʁ/ [ˈviʊ̯.eh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈviw.eɾ/ [ˈviʊ̯.eɾ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈviw.eʁ/ [ˈviʊ̯.eχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈviw.eɻ/ [ˈviʊ̯.eɻ]
Noun
viewer m or f by sense (plural viewers)
- (Internet slang, social media) viewer; spectator
- Synonym: espectador
2017 April 12, Priscila Ganiko, “Partida entre RED Canids e paiN Gaming é quinta mais vista de março na Twitch”, in Jovem Nerd[2], Brazil, archived from the original on 13 June 2025:O site leva em conta o número de espectadores na Twitch.tv e, na lista em que o Brasil aparece, não foram contabilizados os viewers chineses.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2018 April 21, Helder Archer, “Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii – Ep2: “De otaku para otaku””, in OtakuPT[3], Lousada, archived from the original on 24 April 2018:Este episódio completo pareceu-se uma conversa que de um otaku para outro, como se a direcção do anime quisesse comunicar directamente com os viewers dizendo “isto é que os otakus fazem” ou “de certeza que vocês também fazem isto”.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2018 June 20, Joana Almeida Silva, quoting Ricardo “Zorlakoka” Sousa, “Streamers, os novos heróis online”, in Notícias Magazine[4], Lisbon: Global Notícias, archived from the original on 20 June 2018:“ […] Eu sou um streamer grande em Portugal. Tenho 1500 viewers às 23.30. Um streamer internacional grande tem 10 mil e um gigante lá fora tem 110 mil.”- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2019 June 7, “Acusadora de Neymar protagonizou clipe com ex-marido em quem deu facada; veja vídeo!”, in O Dia[5], Rio de Janeiro: iG, archived from the original on 26 June 2019:Após a repercussão do caso com o camisa 10 da Seleção, o clipe da canção ultrapassou a marca de um milhão de visualizações no Youtube. Diversos comentários surgiram, dando a entender que o cantor deveria agradecer a modelo por ter aumentado seu número de viewers.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)