observer
/əbˈzɝvɚ/ nom B2En français : observateur, spectateur
- One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice. · Most impartial observers agreed that Sampras had not served well.
- One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc. · I shall be an observer of the local customs.
- A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate. · The UN sent many observers to the country's first elections.
- A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization. · The Vatican and Palestine have observer status at the UN.
- A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft. · The only crew-member to survive the crash was the Canadian observer.
- A sentry etc. manning an observation post. · We waited till dusk when the observers' vision was poorest.
- Synonym of spotter.
Pluriel observers
Dans la bibliothèque
The latter watched with strange and deep interest the young girl, absorbed by her affection, and he also, like Morrel, followed those traces of inward suffering which was so little perceptible to a common observer that they escaped the notice of everyone but the grandfather and the lover.
But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister’s countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.
Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr.
None of this had escaped the count, and even by this mere contact of individuals the scene had already acquired considerable interest for an observer.
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