🇬🇧🇪🇸 watch - guardia : English Lesson

Meaning of "watch" ("guardia"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A watch is a time when a person stays awake, alert, and on guard to protect someone or something. During a watch, the person keeps looking and listening carefully to make sure nothing bad happens and that everything stays safe and in the right place.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Our cat volunteered for night watch, then loudly meowed for snacks every five minutes as her fee.

During my watch over the cookie jar, one cookie mysteriously vanished into my mouth.

When I was on night watch at the sleepover, I bravely reported every snore, blanket steal, and midnight burp.

Mom put me on watch for my baby sister, but I mostly watched cartoons while she tried to eat a sock.

My brother went on watch by the fridge, guarding the leftover pizza like it was buried treasure.

At dusk the father took the first watch by the sheep pen. His daughter stayed for the next watch, offering tea. Wind lifted straw; a fox crept close. Their watch did not falter; quiet eyes tracked the fox until dawn. When the morning watch arrived, they handed over and laughed, tired but relieved to end the watch.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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