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# eyewitness

«eyewitness» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who saw something happen with their own eyes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an eyewitness, eyewitnesses); adjective (eyewitness account)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An eyewitness is a person who saw something happen with their own eyes, like an accident or crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#m1)

2) An eyewitness account is a report by someone who was there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

History lessons (eyewitness accounts as primary sources), news reports, crime stories, and science of memory (eyewitnesses can remember wrongly). Phrases: eyewitness account, according to eyewitnesses.

### examples

- An eyewitness saw the car go through the red light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#x1)
- We read an eyewitness account of the Great Fire of London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#x2)
- Eyewitnesses said the dog ran into the shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#x3)
- The police asked for eyewitnesses to come forward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#x4)
- Samuel Pepys wrote as an eyewitness to the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#x5)
- Even honest eyewitnesses can make mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#x6)

### note

Plural eyewitnesses. Eyewitness evidence is a primary source but not always reliable: memory changes, and people see from one angle. Compare several accounts.

### In the corpora

- [Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eyewitness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.