Watson
- Proper noun. (surname, northern English and Scottish patronymic) .
- Proper noun. Doctor Watson, fictional character in, and narrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
- Proper noun. Any character who performs as catalyst for the protagonist detective's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that's 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.
- Proper noun. James D. Watson co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.
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