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Definition tower
Etymology 1
From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English t?r, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”). Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh t?r. See also tor.
Noun
tower (plural towers)
- A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
- A water tower.
- A control tower.
- Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
- (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
- (informal) An interlocking tower.
- (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.
- (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
- The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
Etymology 2
From Middle English touren, torren, torrien, from Old English *torrian, from the noun (see above).
Verb
tower (third-person singular simple present towers, present participle towering, simple past and past participle towered)
- (intransitive) To be very tall.
- (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
- (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
Etymology 3
tow + -er
Noun
tower (plural towers)
- One who tows.
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