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night-watch

night-watch is the alternative form of night watch.

Meaning of night watch

Noun

night watch (plural night watches)

  1. A watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.
  2. One or more of the guards on such a watch.
  3. One of the watches kept on a marine vessel.
  4. The sailors standing such a watch.

Forms of night-watch

pluralnight-watches

Questions about night-watch

What is night-watch the alternative form of?
Night-watch is the alternative form of night watch.

Words near night-watch in the dictionary

  1. night-stand
  2. night-stands
  3. night-time
  4. night-times
  5. night-tripping
  6. night-watch
  7. night-watcher
  8. night-watchers
  9. night-watches
  10. night-watching
  11. night-watchings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: night-watch (page history and authors); night watch (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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