tower
IPA: tˈaʊɝ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (intransitive) To be very tall.
- (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
- (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
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Examples of "tower" in Sentences
- In the tower was the Olympic Bell.
- The plan of the tower is rectangular.
- The bell tower is connected to the rookery by a bridge.
- The tower in the accompanying picture is the Levis Tower.
- In honor of the astronomer they renamed the tower the Zimmer tower.
- This is the interior of the tower that holds the cables of the bridge.
- The support structure in the two towers was in the center of the building.
- In 1515, the bells were moved to the tower and the structure was dismantled.
- On the right of the image, the clock tower of Big Ben looms over the bridge.
- The structure had a tile roof but like the rest of the tower is in disrepair.
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