witness vs utterer

utterer vs witness

witness and utterer both are nouns.

witness is a verb but utterer is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
witness	Yes	No	Yes	No
utterer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, utterer is a hypernym of witness; that is, utterer is a word with a broader meaning than witness:

witness: someone who sees an event and reports what happened
utterer: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)

Other hypernyms of witness include beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient, speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer.

witness (noun)	utterer (noun)
testimony by word or deed to your religious faith	someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
someone who sees an event and reports what happened	someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins
a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)	an organism that can utter vocal sounds
(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
(law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law

witness (verb)	utterer (verb)
be a witness to
perceive or be contemporaneous with

Difference between witness and utterer

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