tower
Meanings
noun
- A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
- A very tall open-framed structure on which communications devices are installed.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top.
- A control tower.
- A skyscraper.
- An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
- A strong refuge; a defence.
- Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
- The sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
- A group of giraffes.
- A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
verb
- To be very tall.
- To be high or lofty; to soar.
- To soar into.
noun
- One who tows.
name
- The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.
- A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers.
- A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
noun
- Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.
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Etymology
From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”), Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis). Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh tŵr. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and turret.
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