Meaning of "watch night" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF WATCH NIGHT

watch night

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATCH NIGHT

Watch night is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WATCH NIGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

New Year's Eve

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, is on December 31. In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, drink alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the new year. Some people attend a watchnight service. The celebrations generally go on past midnight into January 1. The island nations of Kiribati and Samoa are the first to welcome the New Year while Honolulu, Hawaii is among the last.

Definition of watch night in the English dictionary

The first definition of watch night in the dictionary is the night of December 24, during which a service is held to mark the arrival of Christmas Day. Other definition of watch night is the night of December 31, during which a service is held to mark the passing of the old year and the beginning of the new. Watch night is also the service held on either of these nights.

TRANSLATION OF WATCH NIGHT

Find out the translation of watch night to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of watch night from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «watch night» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 晚上观看
• Translator English - Spanish: Guardianes de la Noche
• English: watch night
• Translator English - Hindi: रात घड़ी
• Translator English - Arabic: مشاهدة يلة
• Translator English - Russian: смотреть ночь
• Translator English - Portuguese: assistir noite
• Translator English - Bengali: রাতের বেলা
• Translator English - French: veille de nuit
• Translator English - Malay: Menonton malam
• Translator English - German: beobachten Nacht
• Translator English - Japanese: 夜見る
• Translator English - Korean: 제석
• Translator English - Javanese: Nonton wengi
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đêm 31 tháng 12
• Translator English - Tamil: இரவு பார்க்க
• Translator English - Marathi: रात्री पहा
• Translator English - Turkish: Geceyi izle
• Translator English - Italian: night Watch
• Translator English - Polish: oglądać noc
• Translator English - Ukrainian: дивитися ніч
• Translator English - Romanian: ceas de noapte
• Translator English - Greek: παρακολουθήσετε νύχτα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Night Watch
• Translator English - Swedish: titta natt
• Translator English - Norwegian: se natt

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATCH NIGHT»

Discover the use of watch night in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to watch night and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Night Watch

Even as the Night Watch polices the Dark Others--among them vampires, witches and shape-shifters--a chain of mysterious events triggers a dreaded, age-old prophecy: An immortal with special powers will come to switch sides, shattering the ...

Sergei Lukyanenko, 2009

Dead Watch

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels delivers “a page-turner with a new hero, [and a] breakneck pace" (Minneapolis Star Tribune). “Former Sen.

John Sandford, 2006

Last Watch

The fourth novel in the blockbuster series from one of Russia's most popular authors, Last Watch returns us to the hyper-imaginative world of Sergei Lukyanenko, where the endless battle between good and evil is about to reach its climax.

Sergei Lukyanenko, 2009

Before the Bobbies: The Night Watch and Police Reform in ...

This book examines the night watch system, the locally controlled regime of law enforcement that provided professional policing in the areas of metropolitan London outside the City of London until 1829, the year in which Sir Robert Peel ...

Elaine A. Reynolds, 1998

Hymns for the Watch-Night. [By J. and C. Wesley.]

( '3 ) - Betwixt the mount and multitude s ' Our day is spent indoing good, - Our night in praise and prayer. I \Vith us no melancholy void ; No moment: linger unemploy'd, Or unimprov'd below ; Our weariness of lisc is gone, .Who sive lo serve our ...

‎1780

Hymns for the Old and New Year. Suited for watch-night ...

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‎1864

American Methodist Worship

Waiting souls, rejoice, rejoice, And feel the Bridegroom nigh.19 This hymn, a portion of the so-called "midnight hymn," was one of a number of hymns authored by Charles Wesley for use at the watch night, eleven of which were published ...

Karen B. Westerfield Tucker Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Divinity School Duke University, 2001

American Methodist Worship

This hymn, a portion of the so-called "midnight hymn," was one of a number of hymns authored by Charles Wesley for use at the watch night, eleven of which were published independently as Hymns for the Watch-Night (1746); three years  ...

Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, 2011

From Christmas to Twelfth Night in Southern Illinois

There is another explanation of the Watch Night service. It is said that slaves in the Old South would gather in desperation on the last night of the year to await news regarding which of them would be sold on New Year's Day to satisfy their ...

John J. Dunphy, 2010

Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the ...

... Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch Night watch ...

Columbus Asylum for the Insane (Ohio). Board of Trustees and Officers, 1903