looker
part of speech
noun (lookers; lookers-on)
meaning for a pupil
A looker is a person who watches something without taking part; a looker-on is the same. tree →
sense in the lessons
in stories, the crowd who watch a hero's deed but do not join in
examples
- The lookers cheered when the boy won the race. tree →
- Lookers-on stood at the edge of the square. tree →
- Only the lookers waited to see what would happen. tree →
note
nothing for maths; a count of lookers counts the people watching, not those taking part.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «looker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.