Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who beholds; a spectator; one who looks upon or sees.
Wiktionary
- 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 eyes on stalks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who beholds; a spectator.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
Examples
“That beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a truism the beauty giants are all too aware of as they cash in on the hang-ups of different races.”
“The problem is that the beholder will be a group of unelected bureaucrats who will get to make up the law without any real accountability.”
“Nobody Really: Unreasonable is in the eye of the beholder, which is mypoint.”
“Unreasonable is in the eye of the beholder, which is my point.”
“Unreasonable is in the eye of the beholder, which is mypoint.”
“According to the findings published in ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences’ journal, a lopsided face is less attractive to both Hadza and Britons, so that the age-old idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a romantic myth.”
“PARKS: Well, I think what it does is that it forgets that the eye of the beholder is the one that sets the judgment.”
“Among the majority of literary and artistic people of late that eye of the beholder has been a very cynical supercilious eye.”
“The first object which strikes the beholder is a clear column of water eight or ten yards in circumference, which is projected with great impetuosity from the perpendicular rock at the height of 100 yards.”
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
“This stanza means that man should become like the contour of waves, like the glory of spring, — something which to a beholder is a mental image, without constant physical form or substance.”
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