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Stand Watch

Definition: Stand Watch

Stand Watch

Verb

1. Watch over so as to protect; "We must stand sentinel to protect ourselves"; "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Stand Watch

Synonyms: keep guard (v), stand guard (v), stand sentinel (v). (additional references)

Image Slideshow: Stand Watch

Use in Literature: Stand Watch

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The girls will stand watch.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: Stand Watch

Language		Translations for "stand watch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		立ち番 (sentinel). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たちば�" (sentinel). (various references)

Pig Latin		andstay atchway.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Stand Watch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-h-n-s-t-t-w"
	-3 letters: datchas, handsaw.
	-4 letters: ashcan, attach, cashaw, chants, dachas, datcha, nachas, sancta, snatch, stanch, swatch.
	-5 letters: antas, awash, canst, cants, chads, chant, chats, chaws, dacha, dawns, dawts, hadst, hands, hansa, hants, nadas, natch, scant, scatt, schwa, shawn, snath, stand, swath, tachs, tacts, thaws, wands, wants, watch, watts, whats.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Fiction

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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