NIGHT WATCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does night watch mean? 

• NIGHT WATCH (noun)
  The noun NIGHT WATCH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NIGHT WATCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIGHT WATCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

graveyard watch; middle watch; midwatch; night watch

Hypernyms ("night watch" is a kind of...):

watch (a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty)

 Context examples 

Unfortunately, when running free, it is impossible to lash the wheel, so I faced an all-night watch.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)