digital watch en · NOUN
Meanings
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A watch (wristwatch or pocket watch), usually electronic, whose watch face displays time in the form of numbers (a digital display, rather than by a dial and hands (traditional clock face).
Her mom bought her a digital watch as a birthday gift.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| digital watches | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
digital clock · analogue watch · analog watch
Hypernyms
Translations (6)
de Digitaluhr (A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers) · pl zegarek elektroniczny (A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers) · yue 跳字錶 /跳字表 (A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers) · ka ციფრული საათი (A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers) · fi digitaalikello (A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers) · es reloj digital (A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers)