night watchman

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   a watchman who works during the night

   Broaderwatchman

Questions about night watchman

What does night watchman mean?

night watchman means "a watchman who works during the night".

Is night watchman a common word?

night watchman 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.