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watchtower

[ woch-tou-er ]

noun

  1. a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.


watchtower

/ ˈwɒtʃˌtaʊə /

noun

  1. a tower on which a sentry keeps watch


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Word History and Origins

Origin of watchtower1

First recorded in 1535–45; watch + tower 1

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Example Sentences

From the watchtower it could see into every bedroom, every landing, every bathroom.

Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

When within a mile of the town, they must have been sighted by the Dervish sentries on a lofty watchtower.

It might have been a watchtower from the extent of its view, which swept the lake up to the Indian village.

I am going to try by that route to get into the cavern and thence up to the watchtower aerial-sender.

A small watchtower is kept manned even now, but it's a hungry land, and one which would drain even a baron's funds.

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