Watchman
['wɒtʃmən] or ['wɑtʃmən]
Definition
(n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
(n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Guard, sentinel, picket, sentry, guardsman.
Editor: Sweeney
Examples
- I judged the person to be with him, returned the watchman. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A watchman was crying half-past nine, down a dark passage through which she had to pass, in gaining the main thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Watchman tumbled over me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sometimes I am my own watchman. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Podsnap always talks Britain, and talks as if he were a sort of Private Watchman employed, in the British interests, against the rest of the world. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The watchman related the few details connected with the finding of the body, which he said had been still warm when he came upon it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I can hear the watchman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A man was standing there, in parley with the watchman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The watchman looked at it, and asked: 'Who for? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When you came in at the gate and asked the watchman the way here, had you any one with you? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I saw the shadows of the heavy stair-rails, thrown by the watchman's lantern on the wall. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There was no one downstairs except the night-watchman. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was a fine mild evening, and the watchman was calling the hour of ten. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The night-watchman opened the door for us and we sat outside on the stone slabs beside the stairs down to the driveway and waited for the taxi. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Within half an hour from the first starting, they were beyond the winking lamps, and the more than winking watchmen, and were out upon a lonely road. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As a number of loafers and hangers-on about the docks threatened injury to Fulton’s Folly, as the building boat was called, he had to engage watchmen to guard his property. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Pratt