sower

English

Sowers

Etymology 1

From sow +‎ -er.

Noun

sower (plural sowers)

1. One who or that which sows.

Translations

one who or that which sows

• Azerbaijani: səpinçi
• Basque: ereile
• Belarusian: сеяльшчык m (sjejalʹščyk)
• Dutch: zaaier (nl) m
• Finnish: kylväjä (fi)
• French: semeur (fr) m
• German: Säer m, Säerin f
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• Hungarian: magvető (hu)
• Latin: sator m
• Polish: siewca (pl) m
• Portuguese: semeador (pt) m
• Romanian: semănător (ro) m
• Russian: се́ятель (ru) m (séjatelʹ), се́ятельница (ru) f (séjatelʹnica)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: sywc m

• Spanish: sembrador m
• Ukrainian: сіяч m (sijač)

Etymology 2

Noun

sower (plural sowers)

1. Obsolete form of sour.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14:

     Pro. Then, as my gueſt, and thine owne acquiſition / Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter : But / If thou do'ſt breake her Virgin-knot, before / All ſanctimonious ceremonies may / With full and holy right, be miniſtred, / No ſweet aſperſion ſhall the heauens let fall / To make this contract grow; but barraine hate, / Sower-ey'd diſdaine, and diſcord ſhall beſtrew / The vnion of your bed, with weedes ſo loathly / That you ſhall hate it both : Therefore take heede, / As Hymens Lamps ſhall light you.

Anagrams

• Rowse, WOREs, owers, owres, resow, serow, sowre, swore, worse

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Middle English

Adjective

sower

1. Alternative form of sour