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viewer

UK/ˈvjuːə/US/ˈvju.ɚ/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,900 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: viewers

A viewer is somebody watching a broadcast. Millions of viewers, viewer numbers, a regular viewer.

Broadcasters count them obsessively, and the figures are estimates from a panel of households rather than a count of anybody. A viewer is also a device for looking at slides, and in software a viewer is a program that shows a file without editing it.

Definitions of viewer

  1. 1nounviewerSomebody watching a broadcast.B1+

    “The programme warned viewers that some scenes might be upsetting.”

viewer is a person.

Where it comes from

View plus -er, from Old French veue, a sight, from Latin videre, to see.

  1. Middle English

    vewer

  2. English, today

    viewer

From Middle English vewer; equivalent to view + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

viewer in the wild

  • A remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.

    Remote viewing

  • When viewed, the human brain perceives the images as a single 3D view, giving the viewer the perception of 3D depth.

    Stereoscopy

  • In 2025, Evince was replaced as the default document viewer in GNOME by a GTK 4 & Libadwaita hard fork of itself called Papers.

    Evince

  • Windows Photo Viewer (formerly Windows Picture and Fax Viewer) is an image viewer included with the Windows NT family of operating systems.

    Windows Photo Viewer

  • STDU viewer is developed in the programming language C++.

    STDU Viewer

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.