tower

IPA: tˈaʊɝ

A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
A water tower.
A control tower.
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
(figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
(informal) An interlocking tower.
(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
(historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
(obsolete) High flight; elevation.
The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
(cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
(collective) A group of giraffes
One who tows.
(UK, with 'the') The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.
(countable) A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers
(attributive, from its later association with the English mint at the Tower of London) Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.

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