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BYSTANDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nonparticipant spectator
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bystander" is a kind of...):
looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))
Context examples:
“As a bystander,” said Fanny, “perhaps I saw more than you did; and I do think that Mr. Rushworth was sometimes very jealous.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The CD40-CD40L interaction induces Fas expression by bystander B cells, and the interaction of Fas with the T cell Fas-Ligand, followed by B cell apoptosis.
(Bystander B Cell Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The actors may be glad, but the bystanders must be infinitely more thankful for a decision; and I do sincerely give you joy, madam, as well as Mrs. Norris, and everybody else who is in the same predicament, glancing half fearfully, half slyly, beyond Fanny to Edmund.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
An awed hush fell upon the bystanders.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
