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| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | 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. | |
Crosswords: Watch Night |
| English words defined with "watch night": graveyard watch ♦ middle watch, midwatch ♦ Night watch ♦ sit up, stay up ♦ To sit up ♦ Watch and ward, Watch fire, Watch gun. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "watch night": Charleys ♦ Keepers ♦ Surt ♦ Watch on Board Ship. (references) |
| 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 ночь под новый год. (various references) poslednja noć u godini. (various references) nyårsvaka, nyårsbön. (various references) yılbaşı gecesi ayini. (various references) всеношна. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Watch Night" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: watchnight. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 63 68 4E 69 67 68 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a t c h   N i g h t |
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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