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watch chain

watch chain is the alternative form of watchchain.

Meaning of watchchain

Noun

watchchain (plural watchchains)

  1. A securing chain affixed to a watch (a timepiece) to prevent its loss by the owner.
    • So over she went and when he saw her coming she could see him take his hand out of his pocket, getting nervous, and beginning to play with his watchchain, looking up at the church.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of watch chain

pluralwatch chains

Questions about watch chain

What is watch chain the alternative form of?
Watch chain is the alternative form of watchchain.

Words near watch chain in the dictionary

  1. watch battery
  2. watch bill
  3. watch bills
  4. watch cap
  5. watch caps
  6. watch chain
  7. watch chains
  8. watch charm
  9. watch charms
  10. watch circle
  11. watch circles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watch chain (page history and authors); watchchain (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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