shower 
shower (s̸hō′ər)
noun
a person who shows, exhibits, etc.
shower (s̸ho̵u′ər)
noun
- a brief fall of rain, or sometimes of hail, sleet, or snow
- a sudden, abundant fall or discharge, as of tears, meteors, rays, sparks, etc.
- an abundant flow; rush a shower of compliments
- ☆ a party at which a number of gifts are presented to the guest of honor a bridal shower
- ☆
- a bath in which the body is sprayed with fine streams of water from a perforated nozzle, usually fixed overhead
- an apparatus, as in a bathtub, or a room or enclosure used for this
Etymology: ME schoure < OE scur, akin to Ger schauer, shower, squall < IE base *(s)keu-, to cover > shoe, hide
transitive verb
- to make wet as with a spray of water; sprinkle; spray
- to pour forth or scatter in or as in a shower showered with praise
intransitive verb
- to fall or come as a shower
- to bathe under a shower
shower
n.
Object
- cubicle: Also with a big shower cubicle in its en-suite shower room is bedroom two, which has a front outlook.
- WC: Bathroom fittings ( shower, WC, washbasin ) are included in the price.
- wc: Bathrooms: En-suite wet room to bedroom 1 with double shower, wc, basin.
- attachment: There is also a bathroom with bath, shower attachment, toilet & basin.
- room: Also with a big shower cubicle in its en-suite shower room is bedroom two, which has a front outlook.
- room/wc: Set in the sought after Rutherglen locale the flat comprising an entrance hallway, living area, kitchen area and shower room/wc.
Converse of object
- dodge: Plenty of the public came out to support us, dodging the showers, and enjoying the wide variety of entertainment's and displays.
Preposition: over
- bath: The bathroom with WC has an electric shower over the bath.
Preposition: in
- cubicle: Bathroom with WC and electric shower in separate cubicle.
Adjective modifier
- walk-in: Newly fitted large walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash hand basin, WC.
- wintry: Sunny spells and prolonged wintry showers spreading from the north, with longer spells of rain in central regions.
- bridal: Other brides choose to have their bridal showers in a creative ' themed ' location?
- electric: Each has modern electric showers, rather than baths.
- thundery: Ahead of this further east, one or two sunny spells but also some thundery showers breaking out.
Modifies a noun
- cubicle: Shower Room: With shower cubicle having sliding door, hand basin with tiled splash back, strip light, shaver socket.
Noun used with modifier
- meteor: When these events occur they are known as meteor showers and are often quite spectacular to behold.
- en-suite: The four bedroom homes all feature a designer kitchen/breakfast room, en-suite shower room, garage and a good sized rear garden.
Particle object:
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England.
A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swiftö A love in desolation masked;öa Power Girt round with weakness;öit can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;öeven whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley
Three years she grew in sun and shower, 924 The Nature said,'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.'
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In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.
It's easier to get a photograph of the Pope in the shower than a picture of her.
And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in the shower of all my days.
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enameled eyes, That on the green turf such the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Me morire¤ en Par|¤s con aguacero, un d|¤a del cual tengo ya el recuerdo. Me morire¤ en Par|¤söy no me corroö tal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de oton o. I will die in Paris with a sudden shower, a day I can already remember. I will die in Parisöand I don't budgeö maybe aThursday, like today is, in autumn.
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