"looker-on" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 78:",
          "text": "After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth’s marrying Miss Bertram.",
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        "A spectator, onlooker."
      ],
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          "spectator",
          "spectator"
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          "onlooker",
          "onlooker"
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        {
          "word": "on-looker"
        }
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  "word": "looker-on"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "A spectator, onlooker."
      ],
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      "word": "on-looker"
    }
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  "word": "looker-on"
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