Definition of "bower" in Englisch

noun

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

2. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

4. (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

verb

1. To embower; to enclose.

2. (obsolete) To lodge.

noun

1. A peasant; a farmer.

noun

1. Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).

noun

1. (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

noun

1. One who bows or bends.

2. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

noun

1. One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

noun

1. (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.