stand watch

1. 1.

   watch over so as to protect

   “We must stand sentinel to protect ourselves”

   “The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen”

   Synonymsstand guardkeep guardstand sentinel

   Broaderguard

Questions about stand watch

What does stand watch mean?

stand watch means "watch over so as to protect".

What is another word for stand watch?

Close synonyms include stand guard, keep guard, stand sentinel. 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 stand watch a common word?

stand 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.