watchman

Other forms of watchman

plural

watchmans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about watchman

What does watchman mean?

watchman means "a guard who keeps watch".

How many syllables are in watchman?

watchman has 2 syllables: watch-man. The stress falls on "watch". In IPA it is /ˈwɑtʃmən/.

What is another word for watchman?

Close synonyms include watcher, security guard. 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 watchman a common word?

watchman is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.