tower

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English

Etymology 1

From Old English torr.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"taU.@r/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈtaʊ.ɚ/, SAMPA: /"taU.@`/

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• Rhymes: -aʊər

Noun

tower (plural towers)

A nineteenth century water tower

1. A structure, usually taller than it is wide, often used as a lookout, usually unsupported by guy-wires.

   From the top of the tower we could see far off into the distance.

2. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
3. (informal) An interlocking tower.
4. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen.

Synonyms

• donjon

Derived terms

terms derived from tower (noun)

control tower guardtower interlocking tower

radio tower tower of Babel towers of Hanoi

tower of strength watchtower water tower

Translations

structure

Afrikaans: toring (af) Arabic: بُرْج (ar) (burj) m. Armenian: աշտարակ (hy) (aštarak) Bulgarian: кула (bg) (kùla) f. Catalan: torre (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 塔樓 (cmn), 塔楼 (cmn) (tǎlóu), 塔 (cmn) (tǎ), 樓閣 (cmn), 楼阁 (cmn) (lóugé), 樓臺 (cmn), 楼台 (cmn) (lóutái) Czech: věž (cs) f. Danish: tårn (da) n. Dutch: toren (nl) m. Esperanto: turo (eo) Faroese: torn (fo) n. Finnish: torni (fi) French: tour (fr) f. Old French: tor f. Middle French: tour f. German: Turm (de) m. Hebrew: מגדל (he) (migdal) m. Hungarian: torony (hu) Icelandic: turn (is) m. Irish: túr (ga) m. Italian: torre (it) f. Japanese: 塔 (ja) (tō), タワー (ja) (tawā)

Khmer: ប៉ម (km) (pɑɑm), ប្រាង្គ (km) (praang) Latin: turris (la) f. Luxembourgish: Tuerm (lb) Macedonian: кула (mk) (kùla) f. Nahuatl: tlapilkoyan (nah) Norwegian Bokmål: tårn n. Occitan: torre (oc) f. Old English: please add this translation if you can Old Provençal: torre Polish: wieża (pl) f. Portuguese: torre (pt) f. Romanian: turn (ro) Romansch: tur (rm) m. Russian: башня (ru) (bášnja) f., вышка (ru) (výška) f. Scots: tour Scottish Gaelic: tùr (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: торањ (sh) m. Roman: toranj (sh) m. Slovak: veža (sk) f. Spanish: torre (es) f. Swedish: torn (sv) Turkish: kule (tr) Uyghur: مۇنار (ug) Welsh: tŵr (cy) m.

(figuratively) any item that is higher than it is wide

Catalan: torre (ca) f. Czech: věž (cs) f. Danish: tårn (da) n. Dutch: toren (nl) m. Finnish: torni (fi) German: Turm (de) m.

Japanese: タワー (ja) (tawā) Polish: wieża (pl) f. Russian: башня (ru) (bášnja) f. Scots: tour Scottish Gaelic: tùr (gd) m. Spanish: torre (es) f.

Tarot card

Catalan: la torre, casa de déu Czech: věž (cs) f. Dutch: toren (nl) French: la maison dieu German: der Turm Hungarian: torony (hu) Italian: la torre, il fulmine

Japanese: 塔 (ja) Korean: 탑 (ko) Polish: wieża, wieża boga Portuguese: a torre, a casa de deus Scots: tour Spanish: la casa de dios

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Breton: tour m., tourioù pl. Dutch: toren m. Indonesian: menara, tower Interlingua: turre Korean: 탑 (tap) Latin: turris f. Maltese: torri m.

Portuguese: torre f. Romanian: turn n. Slovak: veža f. Slovene: stolp m. Swedish: torn Telugu: స్తూపము (stoopamu) Turkish: kule Volapük: tüm Welsh: tŵr

See also

• The Tower (Tarot card) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:The Tower (Tarot card)
• mast

Verb

tower (third-person singular simple present towers, present participle towering, simple past and past participle towered)

1. To be considerably taller than.

   The basketball players towered over their fans.

Translations

to be considerably taller than

Dutch: bovenuittorenen Finnish: kohota korkealle Hungarian: tornyosul (hu) Icelandic: gnæfa (is) Interlingua: elevar se Italian: torreggiare (it) Japanese: そびえ立つ (ja) (sobie tatsu)

Macedonian: се извишува (mk) (se izvíšuva), надраснува (mk) (nadrásnuva) Old English: hlifian (ang) Portuguese: elevar-se Russian: возвышаться (ru) (vozvyšát’s’a) impf. Spanish: sobresalir (es) Ukrainian: височіти (uk)

Etymology 2

tow +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈtəʊ.ə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"t@U.@(r)/

Noun

tower (plural towers)

1. One who tows.

Anagrams

• wrote