a person who is watching an event, especially a sports event Wordfindersportathlete, champion, compete, fixture, match, record, spectator, sport, stadium, tournament Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivemere, passive, silent, … … of spectatorscrowd verb + spectatorattract, draw, seat, … spectator + verbgather, turn up, line something, … spectator + nounevent, sport See full entry Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French spectateur or Latin spectator, from spectare ‘gaze at, observe’, frequentative of specere ‘to look’.Extra examples He was rendered a virtual spectator for large parts of the game. Spectators lined the route of the president’s walkabout. The stadium will seat 60 000 spectators. This year’s festival attracted 87 000 spectators. I think soccer is the best spectator sport there is. The new football stadium will hold 75 000 spectators. Thousands of spectators lined the route of the royal procession.
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