Dunno is listening to you
observe [ ob·serve ]
Pronounce
Video
News
Permission and obligation
Religion and festivalsFilter
All
English-English
Synonymous
Grammar
Collocation
Level
Verb
1. Notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant.
Many cultures observe a significant event as a right of passage.
Show more (2)
2. Watch (someone or something) carefully and attentively.
In the meantime, they simply observe him and watch him grow.
Show more (2)
3. Take note of or detect (something) in the course of a scientific study.
No air leaks were observed during the study period.
Show more (2)
4. Make a remark.
These, as Curtis Blow once observed, are the breaks.
Show more (2)
5. Fulfil or comply with (a social, legal, ethical, or religious obligation)
Religious minorities observe their own rituals.
Show more (2)
6. Maintain (silence) in compliance with a rule or custom, or temporarily as a mark of respect.
a minute's silence will be observed
Show more (2)
7. Perform or take part in (a rite or ceremony)
This ceremony has been observed for the past eight years.
Show more (2)
8. Celebrate or acknowledge (an anniversary)
they observed the one-year anniversary of the flood
Show more (2)
Origin
1. Late Middle English (in observe (sense 3)): from Old French observer, from Latin observare ‘to watch’, from ob- ‘towards’ + servare ‘attend to, look at’.
Image
Practice pronunciation
Learning goes hand in hand
✖
News
No result
