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looker-on

looker-on noun: a spectator, onlooker.

Noun

looker-on (plural lookers-on)

  1. A spectator, onlooker.
    • After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who...1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 78

looker-on meaning in Malayalam

looker-on in Malayalam

വെറും കാണി, പ്രേക്ഷകൻ, നോക്കി നിൽക്കുന്നവൻ

Forms of looker-on

plurallookers-on
alternative formon-looker

Questions about looker-on

What does looker-on mean?
Looker-on means a spectator, onlooker.
What is looker-on in Malayalam?
Looker-on in Malayalam is വെറും കാണി, പ്രേക്ഷകൻ, നോക്കി നിൽക്കുന്നവൻ. See Looker-on meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is looker-on?
Looker-on is a noun.
What is the plural of looker-on?
The plural of looker-on is lookers-on.

Words near looker-on in the dictionary

  1. lookee
  2. lookee-likee
  3. lookee-likees
  4. lookees
  5. looker
  6. looker-on
  7. looker-upper
  8. looker-uppers
  9. lookers
  10. lookers-on
  11. lookers-on see most of the game

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looker-on (page history and authors); looker-on (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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