Watch Night

  

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Watch Night


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Watch Night December 31st, to see the Old Year out and the New Year in by a religious service. John Wesley grafted it on the religious system, but it has been followed by most Christian communities.
"Southey in his biography of the evangelist (Wesley) denounces watch-night as another of Wesley's objectionable institutions."- Nottingham Guardian, January 1, 1895, p. 5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Watch Night

English words defined with "watch night": graveyard watchmiddle watch, midwatchNight watchsit up, stay upTo sit upWatch and ward, Watch fire, Watch gun. (references)
Specialty definitions using "watch night": CharleysKeepersSurtWatch on Board Ship. (references)

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Modern Translations: Watch Night

Language Translations for "watch night"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

natë e vitit të ri. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szilveszteri ájtatosság (year's-end mass). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchway ightnay

   

Russian 

  

ночь под новый год. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poslednja noć u godini. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nyårsvaka, nyårsbön. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yılbaşı gecesi ayini. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

всеношна. (various references)

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Misspellings: Watch Night

Misspellings

"Watch Night" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: watchnight. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Watch Night

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-h-i-n-t-t-w"

-1 letter: thatching.

-2 letters: chatting, hatching, watching, whinchat.

-3 letters: catting, chawing, gnathic, hatting, thawing.

-4 letters: aching, acting, canthi, cawing, hating, hawing, intact, tawing, thatch, twitch.

-5 letters: acing, actin, aitch, antic, attic, awing, chain, chang, chant, china, giant, hatch, hight, hitch, natch, night, tacit, taint, thigh, thing, tight, tinct, titan, twain, twang, watch, whang, which, wigan, wight, winch.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Watch Night


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 74 63 68      4E 69 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#32 &#78 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0074 0063 0068      004E 0069 0067 0068 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

576786697424875737486

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