Usually means: Guard who monitors and protects.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word watchman:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. watchman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. watchman: Merriam-Webster
  3. watchman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. watchman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. watchman: Collins English Dictionary
  6. watchman: Vocabulary.com
  7. Watchman, watchman: Wordnik
  8. watchman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Watchman, watchman: Wiktionary
  10. watchman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. watchman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. watchman: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. watchman: Dictionary.com
  14. The Watchman (Crais novel), The Watchman (Robert Crais novel), The Watchman (album), The Watchman (periodical), Watchman (disambiguation), Watchman (film), Watchman (law enforcement), Watchman (mascot), Watchman (novel), Watchman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Watchman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. watchman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. watchman: Rhymezone
  18. Watchman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. watchman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. watchman: FreeDictionary.org
  21. watchman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. watchman: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. watchman: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WATCHMAN, WATCHMAN, WATCHMAN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the watchman: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
noun:  A surname.

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