watchtower

See also: Watchtower, watch tower, and watch-tower

English

Alternative forms

• watch tower, watch-tower

Etymology

From watch +‎ tower.

Noun

watchtower (plural watchtowers)

1. An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.
   • 2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute: The Bitterbynde‎^[1]:

     Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots. They often appear as little old men, but can run very fast despite the boots. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish border, but will move their residence to avoid detection.

Synonyms

• lookout tower

Translations

observation tower

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: դիտանոց (hy) (ditanocʻ)
• Belarusian: вартавая вежа f (vartavaja vježa), вартаўнічая вежа f (vartaŭničaja vježa)
• Bulgarian: наблюдателница f (nabljudatelnica), стражева кула f (straževa kula)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: talaia (ca) f, torre de guaita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 崗樓／岗楼 (zh) (gǎnglóu), 望樓／望楼 (zh) (wànglóu)

• Czech: pozorovatelna f, strážní věž f
• Danish: vakttårn n
• Dutch: wachttoren (nl) m
• Esperanto: gardoturo
• Estonian: vahitorn
• Finnish: vartiotorni (fi)
• French: tour de guet (fr) f, tour de garde (fr) f
• Galician: gorita f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Wachturm (de)
• Greek: σκοπιά (el) f (skopiá), παρατηρητήριο (el) n (paratiritírio)

  Ancient: σκοπή f (skopḗ)

• Hungarian: őrtorony (hu)
• Igbo: ugẹle
• Irish: túr faire m
• Italian: torre di guardia f
• Japanese: 望楼 (ぼうろう, bōrō)
• Kazakh: күзет мұнарасы (küzet mūnarasy)
• Khmer: ប៉មយាម (pɑmyiəm)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: specula (la) f
• Latvian: sargtornis m
• Macedonian: набљудува́чница f (nabljuduváčnica), стража́рница f (stražárnica), кара́ула f (karáula)
• Maori: pūhara, pūwhara
• Mongolian: харуул (mn) (xaruul)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vakttårn n

• Plautdietsch: Wachttorm m
• Polish: strażnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: torre de observação f, atalaia (pt) f
• Russian: сторожева́я ба́шня (ru) (storoževája bášnja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стра̀жа̄рница f, стра̀жара f

  Roman: stràžārnica (sh) f, stràžara (sh) f

• Spanish: atalaya (es) f, vigía (es), garita (es) f
• Swedish: vakttorn n
• Tagalog: atalaya, banayaban
• Thai: หอคอย (th) (hɔ̌ɔ-kɔɔi)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gözetleme kulesi
• Turkmen: diň
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: tháp canh (vi)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can