Watson

1. A northern English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.

   Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."

   1910 April 22, “Mark Twain is Dead at 74”, in The New York Times

2. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
3. An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
4. A town in the Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338, Saskatchewan, Canada.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama.
   2. A minor city in Desha County, Arkansas.
   3. A village in Effingham County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa.
   6. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
   7. A minor city in Chippewa County, Minnesota.
   8. A village in Atchison County, Missouri.
   9. A town in Lewis County, New York.
   10. An unincorporated community in Seneca County, Ohio.
   11. An unincorporated community in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.
   12. An unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia.
   13. An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.

plural Watsons · alternative Dr. Watson · alternative Doctor Watson

1. Any character who acts as a catalyst for the detective protagonist's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that is privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.