"onlooker" meaning in English

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          "text": "I wasn’t involved in the fight; I was only an onlooker.",
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          "ref": "1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:",
          "text": "When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.",
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          "ref": "1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 249:",
          "text": "As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.",
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        "A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating."
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          "word": "bystander"
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          "sense": "spectator, bystander",
          "word": "sivustakatsoja"
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          "sense": "spectator, bystander",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bystander"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "spectator, bystander",
      "word": "sivustakatsoja"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "spectator, bystander",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "prizerajúci (sa)"
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