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In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.
Bjorn Ulvaeus

Meaning of "bystander" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BYSTANDER

bystander  [ˈbaɪˌstændə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BYSTANDER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bystander is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BYSTANDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bystander

A bystander is a person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer or spectator. ▪ Bystander effect, a social psychological phenomenon wherein individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present ▪ Bystanders of scientific misconduct...

Definition of bystander in the English dictionary

The definition of bystander in the dictionary is a person present but not involved; onlooker; spectator.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BYSTANDER


Ananda
əˈnændə
Banda
ˈbændə
dittander
dɪˈtændə
Ganda
ˈɡændə
grandstander
ˈɡrændˌstændə
lander
ˈlændə
Luganda
luːˈɡændə
Miranda
mɪˈrændə
outlander
ˈaʊtˌlændə
panda
ˈpændə
propaganda
ˌprɒpəˈɡændə
Ruanda
rʊˈændə
Rwanda
rʊˈændə
sander
ˈsændə
stander
ˈstændə
Uganda
juːˈɡændə
understander
ˌʌndəˈstændə
vanda
ˈvændə
veranda
vəˈrændə
withstander
wɪðˈstændə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BYSTANDER

byroom
byssaceous
byssal
byssi
byssine
byssinosis
byssoid
byssus
bystreet
bytalk
byte
Bytom
bytownite
byway
bywoner
byword
bywork
byzant

WORDS THAT END LIKE BYSTANDER

Alexander
Channel Islander
commander
coriander
demander
expander
finder
gander
hander
Highlander
Hollander
islander
Leander
meander
overlander
Prince Edward Islander
salamander
Santander
slander
wander
zander

Synonyms and antonyms of bystander in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BYSTANDER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bystander» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bystander

Translation of «bystander» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BYSTANDER

Find out the translation of bystander to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bystander from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bystander» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

旁观者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

transeúnte
570 millions of speakers

English

bystander
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दर्शक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наблюдателем
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

espectador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিরীক্ষক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

spectateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengiring
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zuschauer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

傍観者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구경꾼
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bystander
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khán giả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பார்வையாளரான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बक्षक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

seyirci
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spettatore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obserwatora
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спостерігачем
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spectator
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παριστάμενος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omstander
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bystander
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tilskuer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bystander

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BYSTANDER»

The term «bystander» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.097 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BYSTANDER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bystander

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2 QUOTES WITH «BYSTANDER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bystander.
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Elliot Cowan
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
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Bjorn Ulvaeus
In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BYSTANDER»

Discover the use of bystander in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bystander and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Adventures of a Bystander
According to John Brooks of The New York Times Book Review, “Peter Drucker is at a corner cafe, delightfully regaling anyone who will listen with tales of what must be one of the more varied—and for a practitioner of such a narrow skill ...
Peter Drucker, 1999
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Bystander
Eric wants to break away, do the right thing. But in one shocking moment, he goes from being a bystander . . . to the bully’s next victim.
James Preller, 2009
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Bystander
The story follows reports of UFO's and ALIENS by newspaper journalists, and Editors and investigations by same, also "big business" magnates interest, Romance and Marriage and further future contact by space people.
Esther Over-Kershaw, 2012
4
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to ...
In this updated edition of The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander, which includes a new section on cyberbullying, one of the world's most trusted parenting educators gives parents, caregivers, educators—and most of all, kids—the ...
Barbara Coloroso, 2010
5
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
In this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age.
Thomas Merton, 2009
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Bystander: an irreality
Poetry. "What would happen if words, disguised as characters Balboa Pettibone and She-singer, could hallucinate and time travel? mIEKAL aND, one of our most intrepid verbal explorers, takes us into the world of genre fiction and sets it ...
Miekal And, 2008
7
Bystander: A History of Street Photography : with a New ...
A fascinating celebration of street photography features works by such renowned masters as Atget, Stieglitz, Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank, as well as unknown photgraphers, and is filled with detailed text that chronicles the history of ...
Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz, 2001
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Bystander
Although it shares similarities with the roles of observer, spectator, and witness, in terms of the bystander's visual observance of an event, there are unclear connotations that allude to varying degrees of lucidity and sentience among ...
Paul D. Van Hoy (II.), 2008
9
Bystander Power: Now with Anti-Bullying Action
When it comes to changing bullying behavior, nobody has more power than bystanders—all the people who see bullying or know about it.
Phyllis Kaufman Goodstein, LMSW, Elizabeth Verdick, 2012
10
The bystander: an end to innocence in human relationships?
This book provides an exploration of the psychological and social costs of convenience-neutrality, non-involvement or avoidance of responsibility and gives some guidelines on dealing with the difficult issues of bystanding in ourselves and ...
Petrūska Clarkson, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BYSTANDER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bystander is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bystander hits the deck as fighter jet misses them by centimetres
ninemsn. A clueless bystander was forced to throw himself to the ground in a dangerously close encounter with a fighter jet captured on video. «9news.com.au, Jul 15»
2
Forex technical analysis: USDJPY more of a bystander today
As the EURUSD, GBPUSD, AUDUSD, USDCAD all move in the favor of the greenback, the USDJPY has been stuck in the mud. The JPY ... «ForexLive, Jul 15»
3
MORENO VALLEY: Bystander saves drowning boy
A 2-year-old boy was pulled from a Moreno Valley pool and revived by a bystander Monday afternoon. Riverside County firefighters responded ... «Press-Enterprise, Jul 15»
4
POLICE: Bystander arrested after firing shots at suspected 'shoplifter'
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Metro Police say they've arrested a man after he took matters into his own hands to stop someone he ... «WDRB, Jul 15»
5
Greek bystander steals Bloomberg anchor's mic on live TV
Bloomberg TV's Joe Weisenthal was accosted by an individual and had his microphone snatched out of his hand while doing a live stand-up in ... «Yahoo Finance UK, Jul 15»
6
Innocent bystander
Dispatch editorials express the view of the Dispatch editorial board, which is made up of the publisher, the president of The Dispatch, the editor ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
7
The US is a helpless bystander on Greece
In the left's demonology, the US is an overbearing superpower that equates might with right. It intrudes on other people's business and shapes ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
8
New Study Sheds Light On Bystander Intervention In Cyberbullying
This sociopsychological concept helps explain the 'bystander effect', in which people are less likely to feel a sense of responsibility or take ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
9
Bystander saves 3 people from crashed car right before it catches …
All three were freed from the crash car by the bystander and taken by authorities to Cooper University Hospital in Camden. Police are ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
10
Mob attacks roadhouse owner, bystander
A ROADHOUSE owner, a good Samaritan bystander and two other workers were attacked by a violent mob outside a petrol station south of Perth. Pinjarra ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»

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