Meaning

(dated, uncommon) A person who watches or guards something at night; a nightwatchman..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dated, uncommon) A person who watches or guards something at night; a nightwatchman.
2. (dated, uncommon) Someone who keeps watch in the night with questionable or harmful intentions.

Example Sentences

In the silence of the night melodious sounds fall upon the ear from the mysterious stillness of the monasteries, or the voices of the nightwatchers are heard in improvised songs to the perfections of the lady of their affections after the manner of their forefathers in bygone ages.

therefore, who diverges from the nightwatcher state must also deny the "private character" of religion.

We are not prepared to say that merely because the nightwatcher has not been examined, the rest of the confession and the positive evidence of P.Ws. 1 and 2 are untrue and that the appellant was back at the Post Office at an earlier hour than the time of the murder.

The most noticeable change in the educational level of the nightwatchers occurs in the reversal of the percentage of preprofessionals in 1963 and the professionals in 1969.

'So, the nightwatcher comes home at last!' he said. I threw off my shirt.

It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors which the nightwatcher may so often observe burning out to waste in the vacant regions of the atmosphere.

Josef called it the 'nightwatcher'.

Word Forms

• nightwatchers
• night watcher
• night-watcher

When Should You Use Night watcher?

Use night watcher when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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