bower
Plural: bowers
Noun
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- 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.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
- One who bows or bends.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
Verb
Verb Forms: bowered, bowering, bowers
- To enclose or shelter in a bower (a leafy recess).
- enclose in a bower
- To embower; to enclose.
- To lodge.
Examples
- She hoped to BOWER her high-scoring word, protecting it from her opponent’s challenges.
Origin / Etymology
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).
Scrabble Score: 10
bower: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbower: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bower: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
bower: valid Words With Friends Word