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# eyewitness

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

«eyewitness» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An eyewitness is a person who saw something happen with their own eyes, like an accident or crime. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «eyewitness» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eyewitness/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eyewitness» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/eyewitness.html) on Mova free.