Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An observation tower on which a guard or lookout is stationed to keep watch, as for enemies, for forest fires, or over prisoners.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tower on which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, for the approach of danger, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. an observation tower, in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires etc
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies
Etymologies
- watch + tower (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He eventually videotapes what he describes as a watchtower, dozens of large tents, an old ambulance, and what he says are picnic tables and games on the other side of a six-foot chain-link fence topped with razor wire.”
“But see Isa 8: 9. watch in ... watchtower -- rather, "set the watch.”
“All along the watchtower is Vietnam ... doesn't work where they used it.)”
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“For John, Julia and me in the tree, our days consist mostly of phone calls to raise awareness and funding and manning the community watchtower, which is what we call the huge walnut tree where we sit.”
“The statement of claim (TIFF format) argues both copyright infringement (for the materials posted online) as well as trademark infringement (for the use of the domain watchtower. ca).”
“Do you know, and I know the investigation is only now under way, but do you know how these two men made it to the watchtower, which is obviously a place that inmates are never supposed to get to?”
“The Castillo de la Virgen guarded the pass, but the watchtower was the sentry post for the whole Sierra.”
“Tomi, from the word meaning a kind of watchtower that could command a wide view, was one of the oyabun's various secretive quarters.”
“When, from his "watchtower," he first spied the disorders at”
“If you hear the song you are in proximity to a 'watchtower'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘watchtower’.
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (W)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
wail, waistcoat, wales, wallflower, wand, wandering, wanderlust, waning, ward, wardrobe, warp, wassail and 97 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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treeseed Watchtowers are evocational symbols of spiritual beings known as the Watchers or the Grigori (in Strega.) Feb 18, 2008
treeseed see watcher Feb 18, 2008