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coastwatchers

coastwatchers is the plural of coastwatcher.

Meaning of coastwatcher

Noun

coastwatcher (plural coastwatchers)

  1. (historical) Any of the allied military intelligence operatives stationed on remote Pacific island locations during World War II, to observe enemy shipping movements and rescue stranded Allied personnel.

Questions about coastwatchers

What is coastwatchers the plural of?
Coastwatchers is the plural of coastwatcher.

Words near coastwatchers in the dictionary

  1. coastwaiter
  2. coastwaiters
  3. coastward
  4. coastwards
  5. coastwatcher
  6. coastwatchers
  7. coastwatching
  8. coastways
  9. coastwide
  10. coastwise
  11. coat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coastwatchers (page history and authors); coastwatcher (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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