Usually means: Timekeeping device worn on wrist.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word watch:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. watch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. watch, watch, the watch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. watch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -watch, watch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. watch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Watch, watch: Wordnik
  7. watch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. watch: Wiktionary
  9. watch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. watch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. watch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. watch: Dictionary.com
  13. watch (n.), watch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. watch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Watch (Seinfeld), The Watch (TV series), The Watch (band), The Watch, The watch, Watch (Billie Eilish song), Watch (Manfred Mann's Earth Band album), Watch (Seatrain album), Watch (TV channel), Watch (Travis Scott song), Watch (Unix), Watch (computer programming), Watch (disambiguation), Watch (film), Watch (song), Watch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Watch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. watch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. watch: Rhymezone
  19. watch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. watch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WATCH: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. watch: Free Dictionary
  23. watch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. watch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Watch: The Word Detective
  26. watch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. Watch: World Wide Words
  28. watch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. watch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. watch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WATCH: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WATCH: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. watch, watch: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. watch, watch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. watch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Watch: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A portable or wearable timepiece.
noun:  The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
noun:  A particular time period when guarding is kept.
noun:  A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
noun:  A person or group of people who guard.
noun:  The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
noun:  (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
noun:  (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
noun:  The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
verb:  (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
verb:  (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
verb:  (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
verb:  (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
verb:  (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
verb:  (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
verb:  (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.

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