wristwatch

«wristwatch» in Mova's school dictionary: A small clock you wear on a strap or band around your wrist — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (wristwatch, wristwatches)

meaning for a pupil

A small clock you wear on a strap or band around your wrist. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths lessons, children read the time on a wristwatch, in analogue (with hands) or digital (with numbers). In history, wristwatches became common about a hundred years ago; before that people carried pocket watches. Today smartwatches are a kind of wristwatch.

examples

• Grandpa gave me his old wristwatch. tree →
• Check your wristwatch to see if it's playtime. tree →
• My wristwatch has hands and numbers. tree →
• A digital wristwatch shows the time as numbers. tree →
• She wears her wristwatch on her left wrist. tree →
• Soldiers used wristwatches in the First World War. tree →

note

One word. Plural adds -es: wristwatches. Usually people just say «watch». The «w» in «wrist» is silent: «rist».

In the corpora

• An anachronism is something that belongs to another time, such as a Roman soldier with a wristwatch or a Viking with a smartphone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wristwatch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.