Watchtower
Witnesses' publishing arm
A watchtower is a tall structure built for observation, typically to spot approaching enemies, monitor prisoners, or survey surrounding territory.
Guard towers at prisons and military lookout posts are watchtowers.
The term extends to any elevated vantage point for surveillance: From the watchtower, sentries could see for miles.
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- sentinelGuard who monitors
- garrisonStationed military force
- lookoutWatcher or vista point
- rampartFortified defensive wall
battlement · parapet · sentry · guard post · stronghold · outpost · defense · patrol
Coastal beacon tower
shoreline · signal · navigation · shipwreck · foghorn · keeper · lantern · warning
Christian restorationist movement
- Kingdom HallJehovah's Witness worship building
- BibleChristian sacred writings
- tractArea of land
- magazineBound periodical with articles
congregation · evangelism · door-to-door · pamphlet · publication · doctrine · faith · ministry
Protected land patroller
- forestTree-dense ecosystem
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
- observationAttentive watching or remark
national park · spotter · detection · wilderness · mountaintop · isolated · binoculars · radio
Shape's outer edge length
- searchlightFocused lamp for distance
- correctionalAimed at rehabilitation
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- patrolRegular surveillance route
inmate · yard · surveillance · spotlight · security · razor wire · escape · warden
fortification
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
rampart · battlement · parapet · sentry · guard post · stronghold · outpost · defense · patrol · surveillance
lighthouse
Coastal beacon tower
cliff · shoreline · signal · navigation · shipwreck · foghorn · keeper · lantern · warning · rocky
Jehovah's Witnesses
Christian restorationist movement
- Kingdom HallJehovah's Witness worship building
- BibleChristian sacred writings
- tractArea of land
magazine · congregation · evangelism · door-to-door · pamphlet · publication · doctrine · faith · ministry · scripture
ranger
Protected land patroller
observation · national park · spotter · detection · wilderness · mountaintop · isolated · binoculars · radio · vigilance
perimeter
Shape's outer edge length
- searchlightFocused lamp for distance
- correctionalAimed at rehabilitation
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
patrol · inmate · yard · surveillance · spotlight · security · razor wire · escape · warden · compound
- Comic LocationsGotham, Metropolis, Arkham Asylum, Batcave, Fortress of Solitude
- Grand CanyonSouth Rim, North Rim, Colorado River, canyon rim, canyon walls
- military operationsoffensive, attack, marines, Desert Storm, NATO operations
- WWII OperationsBarbarossa, Operation Overlord, Citadel, Neptune, Bodyguard
- Jehovah's WitnessesJehovah's Witnesses, Jehovah, Kingdom Hall, disfellowshipping, shunning
- Thrash MetalMetallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus, Sodom
Watchtowerbunker
Reinforced subterranean stronghold
hiding place · underground shelter · hideout · concealment · foxhole
Watchtowerdungeon
Subterranean prison chamber
underground vault · basement · pit · crypt · underground chamber
- All Along the WatchtowerCryptic 1967 folk-rock prophecy
watch, tower, watches, watched, watching, watcher, watchers, watchful, watchfully