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# wristwatch

noun (wristwatch, wristwatches)

«wristwatch» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A small clock you wear on a strap or band around your wrist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x1)
- Check your wristwatch to see if it's playtime. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x2)
- My wristwatch has hands and numbers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x3)
- A digital wristwatch shows the time as numbers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x4)
- She wears her wristwatch on her left wrist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x5)
- Soldiers used wristwatches in the First World War. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «wristwatch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«wristwatch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/wristwatch.html) on Mova free.