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# looker

«looker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who watches something without taking part; a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/looker/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/looker/#x1)
- Lookers-on stood at the edge of the square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/looker/#x2)
- Only the lookers waited to see what would happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/looker/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/looker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.