vigilante

As nouns the difference between vigilante and watchman

is that vigilante is a person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction while watchman is one set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

As a verb vigilate

is (obsolete|or|nonstandard) to monitor, watch over, control.

As a noun vigilante is

a person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and vigilante

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while vigilante is a person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.

As a noun vigilante

is a person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.

As an adjective vehmic is

(historical) of or pertaining to the (vehm), a westphalian "proto-vigilante" tribunal system during the middle ages.

As a noun vigilante

is a person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.

As an adjective vigilantelike is

resembling or characteristic of a vigilante.

As nouns the difference between vigilante and danite

is that vigilante is a person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction while danite is a member of the biblical tribe of dan.