Thesaurus results for WATCHMEN

watchmen

noun

plural of watchman

as in custodians

a person or group that watches over someone or something hired a watchman to patrol the factory at night

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as in keepers

a person who takes care of a property sometimes for an absent owner a watchman lives next door to scare off prowlers

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Recent Examples of watchmen Traders positioned watchmen along the shoreline, scanning the horizon for incoming vessels. — Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026 Local officials like Allen qualify that the question of using AI surveillance in communities big and small comes down to who’s watching the watchmen. — Noah Daly august 26, Idaho Statesman, 26 Aug. 2026 Fiddlers played at the street corners and watchmen called out the hour of the day. — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026 Francis Ford Coppola meditates on the question of who is watching the watchmen in The Conversation, a neo-noir mystery thriller about the human side of surveillance. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026 Ideas like reparative journalism and sousveillance — an antonym for surveillance, concerning watching the watchmen in a reversal of power — earn fleeting mentions, but are never the focus of actual inquiry. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for watchmen

Noun

This includes medical staff at state prisons, technology specialists at California Highway Patrol and custodians at state hospitals.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Undeath have signed with those custodians of heavy music over at Relapse and debuted a new song for the label.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of custodians

Noun

DeShields had 76 yards on 13 keepers, including a 7-yard touchdown scamper.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
The training keepers this summer — those who traveled and practiced with the USMNT throughout the World Cup but weren’t rostered — were Kochen and Andrew Rick, a 20-year-old Philadelphia Union backup.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of keepers

Noun

The fan guards inside the walk-in cooler had accumulated dust.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The original 1971 experiment was conducted by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, who arbitrarily split volunteers into two groups—inmates and guards—and observed how power corrupted them.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of guards

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According to the post, Kentucky State Police Aviation saw smoke in the area, and wardens and search and rescue personnel were able to access the location, near the headwaters of Cave Run Lake, using a boat.

— Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2026
Game wardens did arrest nine people across Georgia for boating under the influence, the majority of whom were at Lake Lanier.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of wardens

Noun

Four students were involved in a physical fight Thursday morning, sending one student to a local hospital with undisclosed injuries, according to a message sent to parents and guardians.

— Renee Anderson, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
When one of her for-hire guardians speaks of her past as a musician, playing the pianoforte (piano) for enraptured listeners, Adelaide is entranced.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of guardians

Noun

Shares of Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, whose janitors clean 2 billion square feet of commercial property every day, have been written down to nothing.

— Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Those excluded were primarily nurses, cooks and janitors stationed at state hospitals and prisons.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of janitors

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Tuna are also ecologically important apex predators and serve as sentinels of ocean health.

— Torben Rick, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
The program finally comes to an end For more than 55 years, at least a handful of these satellites have been flying as silent sentinels—until last month.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of sentinels

Noun

Absentee voting is available to the elderly, disabled people and their caretakers, and others.

— Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
Osiris' caretakers noticed sudden changes in her behavior and breathing patterns the morning of her death, according to the aquarium.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026