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Definition: Watch Fire |
Watch FireNoun1. A fire lighted at night as a signal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower; telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "watch fire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 篝火 (bonfire, fishing fire). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | かがりび (bonfire, fishing fire). (various references) | ||||
Manx | aile arrey. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | atchway irefay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | uru. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Watch Fire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: watchfire. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-i-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: fitchew, theriac, watcher. | |
-3 letters: achier, cahier, chafer, chawer, cither, farcie, father, fetich, fiacre, fracti, hafter, rachet, thawer, thrice, trefah, wafter, waiter, whiter, wither, wraith, wreath, wretch, writhe. | |
-4 letters: afire, afrit, after, airth, aitch, areic, caret, carte, cater, ceria, chafe, chair, chare, chart, cheat, chert, chief, citer, craft, crate, crwth, earth, erica, ethic, facer. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Translations: Ancient 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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