OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20773

watchman

/ˈwɒtʃmən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
celador • centinela • encargado • guarda • guardián • shafo • vigilante • vigía
One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
The visits of the watchman to that (then) obscure and ill-inhabited neighborhood were more regulated by his indolence than his duty; and Clarence knew that it would be in vain to l…
Well, it so happened that Stine and the cook were sitting in their room one evening, mending and darning their things; it was near bedtime, for the watchman had already sung out "T…
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