Bower meaning
The definition of a bower is an area shaded by trees or other plants, a woman's private dressing room or a country cottage.
An example of bower is an arbor covered with vining flowers.
An example of bower is the room where a bride would get dressed for her wedding.
An example of bower is a small private house where a newly wedded couple would go for their honeymoon.
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A shaded, leafy recess; an arbor.
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A woman's private chamber in a medieval castle; a boudoir.
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A rustic cottage; a country retreat.
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To enclose in or as if in a bower; embower.
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An anchor carried at the bow.
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A place enclosed by overhanging boughs of trees or by vines on a trellis; arbor.
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A rustic cottage or retreat.
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A lady's boudoir.
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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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To form into a bower; enclose with boughs, etc.
verb
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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The heaviest anchor of a ship, normally carried at the bow.
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(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
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A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
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(ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
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Origin of bower
- 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 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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- From the bow of a ship
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