character witness

1. 1.

   a witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation of another person in the community where that person lives

   Broaderwitness

Questions about character witness

What does character witness mean?

character witness means "a witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation of another person in the community where that person lives".

Is character witness a common word?

character witness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.