English
Etymology
From watch + tower.
Noun
watchtower (plural watchtowers)
- An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.
Translations
observation tower
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: պահակադիտանոց (pahakaditanocʻ)
- Catalan: talaia (ca) f, torre de guaita f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 崗樓／岗楼 (zh) (gǎnglóu), 岗楼 (zh) (gǎnglóu), 望樓／望楼 (zh) (wànglóu), 望楼 (zh) (wànglóu)
- Danish: vakttårn n
- Esperanto: gardoturo
- Finnish: vartiotorni
- French: tour de guet (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Wachturm (de)
- Greek: σκοπιά (el) f (skopiá), παρατηρητήριο (el) n (paratiritírio)
- Ancient Greek: 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)
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- Latin: specula (la) f
- Maori: pūhara, pūwhara
- Mongolian: харуул (mn) (xaruul)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vakttårn n
- Polish: strażnica (pl) f
- Portuguese: torre de observação 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)
- Swedish: vakttorn n
- Tagalog: atalaya, banayaban
- Thai: หอคอย (th) (hɔ̌ɔ-kɔɔi)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: gözlem kulesi
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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