nightwatcher
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the silence of the night melodious sounds fall upon the ear from the mysterious stillness of the monasteries, or the voices of the nightwatchers are heard in improvised songs to the perfections of the lady of their affections after the manner of their forefathers in bygone ages."
- "therefore, who diverges from the nightwatcher state must also deny the "private character" of religion."
- "We are not prepared to say that merely because the nightwatcher has not been examined, the rest of the confession and the positive evidence of P.Ws. 1 and 2 are untrue and that the appellant was back at the Post Office at an earlier hour than the time of the murder."
- "The most noticeable change in the educational level of the nightwatchers occurs in the reversal of the percentage of preprofessionals in 1963 and the professionals in 1969."
- "'So, the nightwatcher comes home at last!' he said. I threw off my shirt."
- "It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors which the nightwatcher may so often observe burning out to waste in the vacant regions of the atmosphere."
Etymology
From nightwatch + -er.