Bower

Quick meaning: Bower is a noun meaning A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

Meaning

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

More Meanings

1. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
2. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
3. To embower; to enclose.
4. A peasant; a farmer.
5. Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
6. (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
7. (obsolete) To lodge.

Example Sentences

While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.

[…]say that thou overheard'st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter;[…]

The branches met overhead in a kind of bower and the three cops stood in the shade and studied the roughcast gable of the cottage, maybe fifty yards on up the hill.

Word Forms

• bowers
• bowre
• bowering
• bowered

Synonyms for bower

Depending on context, synonyms include boudoir, arbor, arbour, embower, pergola.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arbour, embower, arbor, pergola, nott, havering.

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