watchman
/ˈwɒtʃmən
/noun (plural watchmen)
1A man employed to look after an empty building, especially at night: a night watchman...
- The fences and barriers, speed bumps and empty watchmen's huts are the trappings of wealth, the buffers of avarice.
- The watchman from the previous night caught my eyes and I knew that brushing it off as a simple misunderstanding wasn't a possibility.
- For a moment I wondered if he secretly worked night shift as a watchman.
Synonyms
security guard, security man, guard, custodian, doorman;
caretaker, janitor, superintendent, warden, steward, curator
1.1 historical A member of a body of people employed to keep watch in a town at night.During the night, watchmen in the town watched lights flicker all over the mountain in the distance....
- If you stay long enough, you will hear mournful strains from a lone bugle - it is played every hour in memory of the watchman whose trumpeted warning of an invasion was silenced by a Turkish arrow.
- Several of the watchmen came down from the towers to confer with the king and his knights inside the castle.
