Word.ws English Dictionary

eye-witness

eye-witness is the alternative form of eyewitness.

Meaning of eyewitness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

  1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
    • And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

See all 2 meanings of eyewitness

Forms of eye-witness

pluraleye-witnesses

Questions about eye-witness

What is eye-witness the alternative form of?
Eye-witness is the alternative form of eyewitness.

Words near eye-witness in the dictionary

  1. Eye-tye
  2. eye-watering
  3. eye-wateringly
  4. eye-winker
  5. eye-winkers
  6. eye-witness
  7. eye-witnesses
  8. eye-word
  9. eye-words
  10. eye-worthy
  11. eyeable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eye-witness (page history and authors); eyewitness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “eye-witness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eye-witness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.