midwatch

Questions about midwatch

What does midwatch mean?

midwatch means "a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.)".

How many syllables are in midwatch?

midwatch has 2 syllables and divides as mi-dwatch under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for midwatch?

Close synonyms include graveyard watch, middle watch, night watch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is midwatch a common word?

midwatch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.