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onlookers

onlookers is the plural of onlooker.

Meaning of onlooker

Noun

onlooker (plural onlookers)

  1. One who looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating; an observer, a spectator.
    • I wasn’t involved in the fight; I was only an onlooker.

Questions about onlookers

What is onlookers the plural of?
Onlookers is the plural of onlooker.

Words near onlookers in the dictionary

  1. onloaning
  2. onloans
  3. onlook
  4. onlooked
  5. onlooker
  6. onlookers
  7. onlooking
  8. onlooks
  9. onlucky
  10. only
  11. only a mother could love

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onlookers (page history and authors); onlooker (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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