watcher

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
noun a guard who keeps watch
noun a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body

From Middle English wacchere, wachere, wacher, equivalent to watch + -er.

Again the watchers bend nearer. — Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter, Lawrence L. Lynch
The watcher did not answer. — The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, Sinclair Lewis
“There’s an embarrassing watcher,” said Enjolras. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

spectator, witness, viewer, looker

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