Definition of BOWER

bower

Meanings

Plural: bowers

Noun

  • a framework that supports climbing plants
  • A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
  • A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
  • A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
  • A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
  • A peasant; a farmer.
  • Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
  • A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
  • One who bows or bends.
  • A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
  • One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
  • A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

Verb

  • enclose in a bower
  • To embower; to enclose.
  • To lodge.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).

Scrabble Score: 10

bower is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
bower is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bower is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

bower is a valid Words With Friends word