bower.
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
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).
To embower; to enclose.
To lodge.
Where this word comes from
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).
A peasant; a farmer.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English boueer, from Old English būr, ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller”), from or related to *būaną (“to dwell”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Buur, böre, büür (“farmer”), Alemannic German pour, pur, Puur, pür (“farmer”), Dutch boer, bouwer (“farmer”), buur (“neighbour”), German and Luxembourgish Bauer (“farmer”), Low German Buer, Buur (“farmer”), Mòcheno pauer (“farmer”), Vilamovian pauer, pojer, poüer (“farmer”), Yiddish פּויער (poyer, “farmer”); also Albanian burr, burrë (“man; husband; brave male; lord”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and boor. More at neighbour.
Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
Where this word comes from
From German Bauer. A doublet of etymology 2 and of the German-origin surname Bauer.
A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
Where this word comes from
From the bow of a ship + -er.
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
Where this word comes from
From bow (verb) + -er.
One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
Where this word comes from
From bow (noun) + -er.
A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
Where this word comes from
From bough + -er, compare brancher.
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