eyewitness

[ noun ahy-wit-nis, ahy-wit-nis; verb ahy-wit-nis ]

/ noun ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs, ˈaɪˈwɪt nɪs; verb ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs /

a person who actually sees some act, occurrence, or thing and can give a firsthand account of it: There were two eyewitnesses to the murder.

to view with one's own eyes: to eyewitness a murder.

Origin of eyewitness

First recorded in 1530–40; eye + witness

eyewash, eyewater, eyewear, eyewink, eyewinker, eyewitness, eyne, eyot, eyra, eyre, eyre peninsula

Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The Telegraph.

When Your Royalty Met Ours: Kate Meets Bey Courtside |Tom Sykes |December 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Mr Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The Telegraph.

Kate Middleton and Prince William's $2m Dinner |Tom Sykes |December 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
One eyewitness reported seeing the police force students out of another bus at gunpoint.

Anatomy of a Mexican Student Massacre |Jason McGahan |October 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
With them go our only eyewitness accounts of the real effects of nuclear war.

Truman’s Grandson & Japan’s A-Bomb Survivors: A Story of Reconciliation |Clifton Truman Daniel |August 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Their hub is an aggregate of photographs and eyewitness reports taken by hundreds of collectives.

Brazil’s World Cup Is An Expensive, Exploitative Nightmare |Vac Verikaitis |May 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
An eyewitness says of these martyrs to liberty: "They behaved with firmness, evincing no hesitation or trepidation whatever."

Kentucky in American Letters, v. 2 of 2 |John Wilson Townsend
The extent, nevertheless, to which he speaks as an eyewitness, renders his work very valuable.

The Age of Dryden |Richard Garnett
There was a glorious crash coming, and for his part he meant to be an eyewitness.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 |Various
I can also give you a description of the siege, having been an eyewitness of the same.

Soyer's Culinary Campaign |Alexis Soyer
That the narrative bears evidence of having been written by an eyewitness is to my own mind clear.

Who Wrote the Bible? |Washington Gladden

eyewitness

/ (ˈaɪˌwɪtnɪs) /