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embower.

To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɛmˈbaʊɚ/
  1. To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

    poetic · transitive
  2. To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

    intransitive
    But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
  3. To form a bower.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.