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How to spell watches
Watches is spelled W-A-T-C-H-E-S.
What it means: To observe or look at something.
In a sentence: She watches the butterflies in the garden.
Same family: watcher, watching, watched, watchful, watchman. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The noun “watch” comes from Old English *woecce*, meaning a watching or guarding. It later developed the sense of a person or group on guard duty, which is where the plural “watches” in this meaning comes from.
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