English Explanatory Dictionary

embower

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
  2. To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
  3. To form a bower.

Pronunciation

/ɛmˈbaʊɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-embower.wav

Word forms

embower embowers embowering embowered imbower

Etymology

Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower.

Derived words

embowerment unembowered
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