noun
a watch or guard kept during the night.
a person or the persons keeping such a watch.
Usually night watches . the periods or divisions into which the night was divided in ancient times.
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Origin of night watch
before 1000; Middle English; Old English
OTHER WORDS FROM night watch
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Words related to night watch
observance,
patrol,
attention,
awareness,
duty,
guard,
lookout,
monitoring,
notice,
observation,
surveillance,
vigilance,
watchfulness,
eagle eye,
stakeout How to use night watch in a sentence
Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.
As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.
I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
While they were doing this, he assembled the officers around him, and the meaning of our night march was explained to us.
I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
British Dictionary definitions for night watch
noun
a watch or guard kept at night, esp for security
the period of time the watch is kept
a person who keeps such a watch; night watchman
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