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watchband

watchband

1 2.4
A band of leather, cloth, or metal worn on the wrist to hold a watch
  • noun
  • /ˈwɑːtʃbænd/
  • US
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  • He knew that the bed sheets and Laurie's bloodstained clothing, watchband, and bracelet had been confiscated.
  • a gold watchband

Examples

  • She had bought him the blue striped shirt he was wearing, his leather watchband.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I decided to replace the old leather watchband on my wristwatch with a new metal one.

  • - It's an interesting watchband.

  • She'd tried to clean the watchband too.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • You come out of the water after a wave like this, your back looks like a Twist-O-Flex watchband.

  • At the table, she adjusted her watchband and raised her eyebrows at me.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • My uncle beams and straightens a watchband.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Sissie was smiling at the chimes, her arm lifted like a wing, the velvet of the watchband red as blood, when Hilda and I first saw her.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • He turned his wrist inward and fiddled elaborately with his watchband until he finally unhooked it.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • He sat back from his glass-topped desk and folded one leg neatly over the other, adjusting his sleeve cuff back over his gold watchband.

    Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

wristband
vswatchband
23 2.1

A band that you wear around the wrist to hold a watch or to show style

is specifically the band attached to a wristwatch rather than a general accessory
bracelet
vswatchband
19 1.3

A strap that attaches a watch to the wrist

is the general technical term for that same band
watchstrap
vswatchband
2.8

A band of leather, cloth, or metal worn on the wrist with a watch

is the neutral name for the attached band without that emphasis
watch bracelet
vswatchband
2.9

A band of metal or leather that attaches a watch to your wrist

is broader and covers bands of any material not only metal

How Flexible

watchband
  • US
1 2.4

Surface Forms

watchband singular
watchbands plural

Morphology

watchband = watch + band (transparent) = watch + band

Direct compound of two common nouns whose meanings combine straightforwardly: a band for a watch.

Etymology

Watchband is made of two parts, watch and band; watch comes from an old word meaning 'to be awake' or 'to look', and band means 'a strip that goes around', like a headband or a rubber band. So a watchband is the strip that goes around your wrist to hold the watch.