Bower Definition

bouər
bowers
noun
bowers
A place enclosed by overhanging boughs of trees or by vines on a trellis; arbor.
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A lady's boudoir.
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A rustic cottage or retreat.
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A hut and platform of twigs built by a male bowerbird: used only for courtship and not as a nest.
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The jack of trump (right bower) or the jack of the other suit of the same color (left bower), the highest card and next highest card, respectively, in euchre.
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verb
To form into a bower; enclose with boughs, etc.
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pronoun

A surname​.

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Other Word Forms of Bower

Noun

Singular:
bower
Plural:
bowers

Origin of Bower

  • From Middle English boueer, from Old English būr, ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to dwell”). Cognate with German Bauer (“peasant, builder”), Dutch boer, buur, and Albanian burrë (“man, husband”). See boor, neighbor.

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  • From Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)).

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  • Middle English bour a dwelling from Old English būr bheuə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bough, compare brancher.

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  • From German Bauer.

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  • From the bow of a ship

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