Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bower
IPA transcription: [b'aʊɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: arbor, arbour, bower, pergola
    Meaning: a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: embower, bower
    Meaning: enclose in a bower
Usage examples
  • Being here, would you care at all to look round the Bower?'
  • There was grief in the aristocratic house, and there was joy in the Bower.
  • This is a charming spot, is the Bower, but you must get to apprechiate it by degrees.
  • "Nay, he returns," said Marianna, gently, as the yellow bird flew back and perched in the sheltering bower of Marianna's arms.
  • And I am bound to bear in mind that I took Wegg on, at a time when I had no thought of being fashionable or of leaving the Bower.
  • It was on the tip of Durham's tongue to say that no doubt Jerry had been placed as a spy at the Bower, but he suppressed this remark.
  • He wondered if Julius really believed the man at the Bower to be Bernard Gore, or if he was trying to learn what he--Durham--thought himself.
  • They did not come by that train, however, much to the disappointment of those at the Bower. It was seven before they arrived, and then the three ladies came out to meet them on the lawn.
  • Weep for the hour, When to Boffinses bower, The Lord of the valley with offers came; Neither does the moon hide her light From the heavens to-night, And weep behind her clouds o'er any individual in the present Company's shame.
  • One of the Blackfellows had come from a little bower of trees, and wore a few skins so arranged as to make him look as much like a kangaroo as possible, whilst he worked a stick which he pretended was a kangaroo's tail, and hopped about.