Synonyms of the word

spotter

• n. A person who observes something.
• n. (military) A member of a sniper team.
• n. (weightlifting, gymnastics, climbing) One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to…
• n. (US) A banksman or dogman.

beholder

• n. Someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator.
• n. (fantasy) A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many…

discoverer

• n. One who discovers; the person who discovered something.

employee

• n. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.

finder

• n. One who finds, or discovers something.
• n. An optical device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.

lookout

• n. A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.
• n. A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, etc.
• n. A subject for observation; a prospect or view.
• n. One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. (used with a possessive pronoun or a noun in…

observer

• n. One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice.
• n. One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc.
• n. A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate.
• n. A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
• n. (military) A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft.
• n. (military) A sentry etc. manning an observation post.

perceiver

• n. Agent noun of perceive; one who perceives.

percipient

• adj. Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
• adj. (psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young…
• n. (philosophy, psychology) One who perceives something.
• n. (parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.

picket

• n. A stake driven into the ground.
• n. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the…
• n. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
• n. (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance…
• n. A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
• n. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the…
• n. (card games) The card game piquet.
• v. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
• v. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
• v. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

scout

• n. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about…
• n. An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
• n. A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the…
• n. A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf…
• n. (Britain) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge…
• n. (Britain, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
• n. (historical, Britain, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
• v. (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as…
• v. (transitive) To reject with contempt.
• v. (intransitive) To scoff.
• n. (dated) A swift sailing boat.
• n. (archaic) A projecting rock.

sentinel

• n. A sentry or guard.
• n. (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a…
• n. Watch; guard.
• n. A sentinel crab.
• v. (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
• v. (transitive) To post as guard.
• v. (transitive) To post a guard for.

sentry

• n. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
• n. (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
• n. (nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.

watch

• n. A portable or wearable timepiece.
• n. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
• n. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
• n. A person or group of people who guard.
• n. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
• n. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty:…
• n. (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the…
• n. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
• v. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
• v. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
• v. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
• v. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
• v. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
• v. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.

watcher

• n. someone who watches or observes.
• n. someone who keeps vigil.
• n. a guard.

watchman

• n. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a…