night watch

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgraveyard watchmiddle watchmidwatch

   Broaderwatch

Questions about night watch

What does night watch mean?

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

What is another word for night watch?

Close synonyms include graveyard watch, middle watch, midwatch. 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 night watch a common word?

night watch 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.