Eyewitness

Alternative forms

• eye-witness
• eye witness

Origin

From eye + witness

Full definition of eyewitness

Noun

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
• 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, S:The_Return_of_Tarzan/Chapter_XXIV, And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.

Verb

1. To be present at an event, and see it