WATCHTOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does watchtower mean? 

• WATCHTOWER (noun)
  The noun WATCHTOWER has 1 sense:

1. an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies

  Familiarity information: WATCHTOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATCHTOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("watchtower" is a kind of...):

tower (a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "watchtower"):

fire tower (a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires)

 Context examples 

If the rim of the plateau was indeed the highest point, then why should this mighty tree not prove to be a watchtower which commanded the whole country?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)