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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishtour,tur,tor, fromOld Englishtūr,tor,torr("tower; rock"; > Englishtor) andOld Frenchtour,toer,tor; both fromLatinturris(“a tower”),Ancient Greekτύρρις(túrrhis)(Hesychius),τύρσις(túrsis).

CompareScotstour,towr,towre(“tower”),West Frisiantoer(“tower”),Dutchtoren(“tower”),GermanTurm(“tower”),Danishtårn(“tower”),Swedishtorn(“tower”),Icelandicturn(“tower”),Welshtŵr.

Doublet oftor,tourelle, andturret.

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Noun

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tower (pluraltowers)

A nineteenth centurywater tower
  1. A very talliron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on whichmicrowave,radio,satellite, or othercommunicationantennas are installed;mast.
  2. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as alookout for spotting fires, plane crashes,fugitives, etc.
  3. Awater tower.
  4. Acontrol tower.
  5. Any very tall building or structure;skyscraper.
  6. (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
  7. (informal)Ellipsis ofinterlocking tower.
  8. (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
  9. (historical) A tallfashionableheaddress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
  10. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book XI”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Nigh in her sight
      The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerietour,
      Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove.
  11. The sixteenthtrump or Major Arcana card in manyTarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
  12. (cartomancy) The nineteenthLenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
  13. (collective) A group ofgiraffes.
    • 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, inBBC‎[1]:
      A group of giraffes is called atower.
  14. (business) Each of a set ofinformation technologyconcerns within abusiness, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by differentproviders.
    • 2013, Great Britain,The Impact of Government's ICT Savings Initiatives, National Audit Office, page28:
      Suppliers compete separately for thetowers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services.
    • 2023, Cybellium Ltd,Mastering ISO-IEC 20000-1, page108:
      Servicetowers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these servicetowers.
  15. (glassblowing) A metal stand used as apivot to support apunty at a furnace.
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structure
(figuratively) any item that is higher than it is wide
Tarot card
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishtouren,torren,torrien, fromOld English*torrian, from the noun (see above).

Verb

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tower (third-person singular simple presenttowers,present participletowering,simple past and past participletowered)

  1. (intransitive) To be very tall.
    The office blocktowered into the sky.
    • 1921,Reginald Farrer, chapter 10, inThe Rainbow Bridge‎[2], London: E. Arnold & Co., page181:
      Potentilla and IvoryDaphne sat humpily about on the unfolded lawns, and ahead, theretowered out enormous cliffs and fantastic pinnacles of what looked like Dolomite.
    • 1954 August, H. M. Madgwick, “The Blaenau Festiniog Tunnel”, inRailway Magazine, page569:
      This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock thattowers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
    • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men intowering skyscrapers.
  2. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; tosoar.
    • 1591 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:
      My lord protector's hawks dotower so well.
    • 1829,Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, inAl Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      When Hope, the eagle thattower’d, could see
      No cliff beyond him in the sky,
      His pinions were bent droopingly —
      And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
    • 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, inRailway Magazine, page14:
      As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock,towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
    • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, inTrains Illustrated, page752:
      To the lefttowers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) Tosoar into.
    • 1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit
      The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons,tower
      The mid aerial sky
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Etymology 3

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Fromtow +‎-er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tower (pluraltowers)

  1. One whotows.
    • 1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner,The Autocar:
      But as thetower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]

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Verb

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tower (presenttower,present participletowerende,past participlegetower)

  1. alternative form oftoor
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