All watchman synonyms

noun watchman

• night watchman — watchman.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
• custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
• caretaker — A caretaker is a person whose job it is to look after a large building such as a school or a block of flats or apartments, and deal with small repairs to it.
• patrolman — a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
• policeman — a member of a police force or body.
• warden — any of several pears having a crisp, firm flesh, used in cookery.
• curator — A curator is someone who is in charge of the objects or works of art in a museum or art gallery.
• detective — A detective is someone whose job is to discover what has happened in a crime or other situation and to find the people involved. Some detectives work in the police force and others work privately.
• keeper — a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
• lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
• observer — someone or something that observes.
• patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
• picket — a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
• ranger — forest ranger.
• scout — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
• sentinel — a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
• sentry — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
• signalman — a person whose occupation or duty is signaling, as on a railroad or in the army.
• spotter — a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
• spy — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
• ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
• watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
• watcher — a person who watches or who keeps watch.
• flagman — a person who signals with a flag or lantern, as at a railroad crossing.