watchtower

[ woch-tou-er ]

/ ˈwɒtʃˌtaʊ ər /

a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.

Origin of watchtower

First recorded in 1535–45; watch + tower¹

From the watchtower it could see into every bedroom, every landing, every bathroom.

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It may be that this was a watchtower of that ancient people whose homes we have found in ruins.

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Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version |Various
Alfred and Guthlac, on a watchtower above, gazed on the plain stretched before them.

Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune |A. D. Crake

I woo thee from the watchtower high, Where thou dost sit to guide the bark Of lonely mariner.

The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White |Henry Kirke White
She desired the mind's bird's-eye view—a height, a watchtower and a little solitude.

The Garden Of Allah |Robert Hichens

watchtower

/ (ˈwɒtʃˌtaʊə) /

a tower on which a sentry keeps watch