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1. The audience reached by television
   "the program was withdrawn because of the squeamishness of some viewers"
   - viewing audience, TV audience

1. A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
   "television viewers"
   - spectator, witness, watcher, looker
    
2. An optical device for viewing photographic transparencies

See also: view

Type of: audience, beholder, observer, optical device, perceiver, percipient

Encyclopedia: Viewer