night watch

night watch noun: a watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.

Noun

night watch (plural night watches)

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

night watch meaning in Tamil and Urdu

Synonyms of night watch

night watchman

Forms of night watch

plural	night watches
alternative form	night-watch
alternative form	nightwatch

Origin of night watch

From Middle English nightwacche, nyȝt-wacche, nyghte wacche, nyȝt wacche, from Old English nihtwæċċe, a variant of nihtwacu (“nightwatch”), equivalent to night + watch. Cognate with West Frisian nachtwacht (“nightwatch”), Dutch nachtwacht, nachtwake (“nightwatch”), German Nachtwache (“nightwatch”) and Nachtwächter (“night watchman”), Swedish nattvakt (“nightwatch”), Icelandic næturvakt (“nightwatch”).

Words formed from night watch

nightwatcher

Questions about night watch

What does night watch mean?: Night watch means a watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.
What is night watch in Tamil?: Night watch in Tamil is உக்களம், சாமக்காரன், சாமக்காவல். See Night watch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is night watch?: Night watch is a noun.
What is the plural of night watch?: The plural of night watch is night watches.

Words near night watch in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: night watch (page history and authors); night watch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جام (Urdu) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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