bower

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
    — Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.
  2. A peasant; a farmer.
  3. Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
    — Yet the cards they were stocked / In a way that I grieve, / And my feelings were shocked / At the state of Nye's sleeve, / Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, / And the same with intent to deceive.
  4. A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
  5. One who bows or bends.
    — The bower aims his display straight at the dominant figure, who may reciprocate with a milder version of the same action.
  6. One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
  7. A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
  8. A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. literary
    — While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower
  9. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
    — His rawbone armes, whose mighty brawned bowrs / Were wont to riue steele plates, and helmets hew
  10. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
    — […]say that thou overheard'st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter;[…]
  11. A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
动词 v.
  1. To embower; to enclose.
    — O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell / When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend / In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
  2. To lodge. obsolete
    — Flora now calleth forth each flower, And bids make readie Maias bower

词形变化

bowers plural bowre alternative,obsolete bowers present,singular,third-person bowering participle,present bowered participle,past bowered past bowers plural bowers plural bowers plural bowers plural bowers plural bowers plural bougher alternative

词汇关系

近义词
boudoir
衍生词
Bower Ashton bowerland bowerless bowerlet Bowers Gifford bower vine bowerwoman bowery bridal bower lady's bower virgin's bower imbower overbowering best bower

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
词源 2
From Middle English boueer, from Old English būr, ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller”), from or related to *būaną (“to dwell”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian Buur, böre, büür (“farmer”), Alemannic German pour, pur, Puur, pür (“farmer”), Dutch boer, bouwer (“farmer”), buur (“neighbour”), German and Luxembourgish Bauer (“farmer”), Low German Buer, Buur (“farmer”), Mòcheno pauer (“farmer”), Vilamovian pauer, pojer, poüer (“farmer”), Yiddish פּויער (poyer, “farmer”); also Albanian burr, burrë (“man; husband; brave male; lord”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and boor. More at neighbour.
词源 3
From German Bauer. A doublet of etymology 2 and of the German-origin surname Bauer.
词源 4
From the bow of a ship + -er.
词源 5
From bow (verb) + -er.
词源 6
From bow (noun) + -er.
词源 7
From bough + -er, compare brancher.
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